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SOLDIER DRESSED AS ..FRENCH. GIRL..

DRAMA OF THE OCCUPIED AREA.

DEVOTION AND TREACHERY.

Love At First Sight, Gradually Cruickshank developed

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PERSONNEL

HARBOUR IN. 1923.

a confidenes which proved eventual- LATEST CHANGES IN OFFICER SUNK IN HONG KONG ly to be misplaced: At the very outset the ingenious mother of the home had dyed his khaki tunic black and he sometimes ventured to changes in officer parsonnel on the The following are the latest so outside after nightfall with China Coast :--

The British submarine Z2, which Léon. Life, indeed, grow less and

was sunk in Hong Kong Harbour less disagreeable, and romanCO Capt W. J. Andrews, of the during the typhoon in August, 1923, tered into it when a girl named differd, from reserve, has gone her purchase are being invited by Luchow, is on' reserve. Capt. His now to be sold and tenders for Aimée, who lived the neighbour hood, began to take an interest in master, Luchow, the young Scotsman, Aimée was one of those who had been let into engineer, datung, has gone sup'y Mr. D. R. Maxwell, sup'y second the, secret of his presence in the second engineer, Faishan. house, and from the account of the affair given by the Baudhuins, it seems to have been a case of love at first sight.

Mr. W. Niblock, sup'y chief engineer, Sunning, is on Home leave."

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The Daily Telegraph has recently published a series of most interest

It will be recalled that the Z.

YONSIGNEES of Cargo, by the ing narratives telling of how French

was a resorve submarina on the formed that their Goods are being landed bove named vessel are hereby ins women in the occupied territories

China Station with a very amall and placed at their risk in the Hong. during the Great War hid and shel- tored stragglers from the British Aimée brought the Ecossais to gone second engineer, Linan.

Mr. W. Turner, from reserve, baa 18th, 1993, when the typhoon was Company's Godowns at Kowloon where crew. On the morning of August Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Army, always at the imminent peril bacca and cigarettes, and it appears of their lives. Typical of these war

at its worst, she broke loose from each Consignment will be sorted out Mark Mr. R. W. Russell, sup'y third her mooring, Lieut. Dickson and Mark and Delivery can be obtained a time romauren is the following first came the ides of dressing her second engineer, Chuan, Mr. Ant the time. A beavy sea was ruu-

to have been Aimée to whom there engineer, Chenan, has gone sup'y three or four men being on board the Goods count of a young Cameronian's ad

ning at the time, and the submarino Persian Gulf er B.I.S.N. and B. & F.S.N.

landed. are ventures, which, had, eventually

"This

vessel brings on Cargo front sequel in his marriage to one of the heroic women who befriended him

sea wall by the naval dock, Lieut. was carried towards the ferry Co.'s Steamers. whart. As the Z.s was nearing the The Daily Telegraph has opened

Dickson ordered the crew to jump the str

Goods will be landed here. Optional unlou instructions have been given to a fund on behalf of these French heroines to which a very generous

overboard and he remained on her

the contrary Sir hours before arrival of

Ntramer+ response has been made."

in the hope that he would be able to secure her to a mooring.

Our contemporary's special corre spondent tells the story as follows: "The cruel battlefield has robbed

on reserve.

sweetheart as a woman, to enable B Bowler, noting second engineer, him to go out with her and ather Chuan, is on Homs leave. companions. This scheme was car ried out, and thenceforward Cruick-engineer, Linan, has gone chief Mr. J. H. Stephan, chief shank frequently took walks, and, engineer, Suigung, Mr. A. N. Me- being so young and alight, struck any German patrel that the Donald, chief engineer, Suiyang, is demoiselle passing so

Mr. B. S. Sinclair, demurely chief engineer, Eweiyang, has gone along the street was in reality an chief enginest, Linan. Mr. A. Mc onemy soldier.

For a period Leod, chief engineer, Taikoo Wanyi, Cruickshank

ill, and here has gone chief engineer, Keiyang, me of one of my sons: God has sent again, as in the cases of fowler and Mr. A. Campbell, from Home leave, me this young British soldier in his Hall, a kindly doctor and a kindly has gone chief engineer, Tasto place" These were the words that chemist (Dz. Tison, and M. De any yet another of the French beroines, haussy) join the dramatis persona whose stories I have sent this week of the episode. Thanks to their co- to The Daily Telegraph, proudly operation and the solicitous care of Bung at a German military court Madame Baudhuin David, as he before which she appeared to answer was called in the home, was restored a charge of having concealed a Scot | to health, in her house in Le Cateau.

The noble woman in this case is

Treachers,

Mr. J Elack, sup'y third en- 6ineer, Linan, bas gone third en- gineer, Chengtu.

Mr. A. Dunesa, third "engineer, Anhui, has gone third engineer, Taikoo Fanyi. Mr. O. E. Stuart,

. H. Knight, third engineer. supy third engineer, Fanning, has gone third engineer, Anhui Mr. Taikoo Wangi, has gone sup'y third engineer, Nanning. has

Capt. T. Croft, from Home leave, Capt. D. R. Kilbee, of the Cheong- gone master, Cheongshing king, is or Home leave.

just opposite the Pray Lieut. The Z. eventually went down Dickson jumped out and awam to a mooring and clung there being many rescued from his perilous

position by A. R. Treggus, of H.M.S.

this act of bravery.

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marriage, lends a romantic the end of the war and accompany days, in touch to a narrative otherwise coming her German friends to the posed of black tragedy.

Fatherland. The account of the The house in which Cruickshank events immediately on the betrayal has gone third officer, Chak Sany.

Mr. A. Robertson, from reserve, was concealed has, like so many I give in Madame Baudhuir's own other buildings in Le Cateau, been words.

Mr. H. R. Dobson, from reserve,. blotted out of existence, and the

PRICE The British soldier," she said, has gone chief officer wat Sang. Baudhuins now live in a dwelling "had beer with us for a little over

Mr. W. J. Turner, from "reserve, in that quarter on the outskirts of two years, and during that time I has gone third officer, Fetahing. the town called "La Cité Picard." had really grown to regard him as Tekwa, has gone acting master, Mr. H. 8. Allison, chief officer, The father, Jules Baudhuin, A son, while Léon and Marie called veteran soldier, was for four years him brother. a prisoner of war in Germany, on September 10th, 1918, a number

At about midnight same ship.

M. J. Rees, from reserve, has Cruickshank, on the discovery of of Germans came to the door and gone sup'y second officer, Tuckero. his cachette, was atürst sentenced demanded entrance. This terrified Mr. C. C. Warren, from reserve, to death, but this was commuted to me greatly, because David was sharbas gone chief officer, Kwong Sang. ten years' imprisonment, as the reing a bed with Leon. But there Mr. B. T. Sawyer has been ap- sult, undoubtedly of a passionate was no time to remove him to his painted second oficer, Sianguor appeal to the tribunal by Madame old hiding place, or to get him into Mr. S. A. Marchant, second officer, Baudhuin. Madame herself suffer the linen chest, so all I could do Sianguo, is on Home leave, ed imprisonment in Germany, and was to hope for the best. The Ger-Aung Sang, has gore second J. Shiel, second officer, her second son, Léon, was con- mans went up to the bed as soon demned to forced labour in a dis- they came into the house. Painting officer, Szive. Mr. G. A. R. Powell, trict distant from his own com- to Léon, they asked, Who is this? second officer, Suiwo, has gone mune. The elder son, Jules, waaMy son, Léon," I answered. How second officer Lee Sang, killed in battle at the outset of the I was trembling, and they must "Mr. A. McN. Marshall, from invasion. And the only remaining have noticed it. David had "con- Home leave. has gone second en- member of the family, Marie, a girl cealed himself under the clothes,gineer, Ting Sang. Mr. A. Paton, of 15, was left alone in the broken- but the Boches had evidently been acting second engineer, Ting Sang, up home alone with the Germanwell informed by the woman,for, occupiers and neighbours.

to my horror, they pulled down the Mr. P, Stewart, sup'y second elothes and demanded, And who is engineer, Funguo, has gone third this 7

A cousin,' I said. But it engineer, Ting-Sang. to keep that up. The Germans gone chief engineer, Kutuo. Mr. G. was, naturally, useless to attempt Mr.. 1 D. Smith, from reserve, has kaew at once that they had found." Patterson, chiel their British soldier, and they Kutwo, ie on reserve.

engineer, arrested not only him, but Léon and me. Marie, a mere child, was, there Ching, has gone to shore duty. Mr. Mr. R. Perry, second officer, Hai fore, to be left in the house alone. E. T. Evaca, third officer, Hai

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to touch the hearts of the Ching, bas gone second officer, same drag me away from the infant, but my appeals were in vain, and the three of us were marched off to the prison."

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This further narrative of French compassion for a British soldier, with resultant tragedy to those com- cerned, was given to me in convex sations with Monsieur, Madame, and Léon Baudhuin in their new home. All three bear the imprint on their countenances of their ter rible experiences; Madame Baud huin in particular is paying the penalty, in broken health, of her reckless generosity of heart in har bouring & Briton at a time when to do so meant; in the event of discovery, either imprisonment oz death.

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were imprisonment, under a second court-martial. British soldier, who had been in the Private Cruickshank was ordered to cannot be forgotten in the wave of martyrdom of ill-health; and she fighting in this region in the early be abot, and his fate seemed to be British generosity that has been days of the invasion, rushed up to sealed when there occurred what produced by the revelation of what me. He was in a sad state as a must have been one of the most her sister heroines, Madame Bel- consequence of his wanderings after touching and most dramatic in mont-Gobert, Madame Cardon, and being cut off from his regiment, and cidents of the German occupation of the others endured he was practically demented, for he Northern France. Mme. Baudhuin, consequence of sheltering British direct kept on shouting, Moi tué, moi who herself was under sentence soldiers. tue and Maman, soleil; Maman, of ten years' imprisonment, made a soleil ! I was in a great predica most passionate appeal to the ment for a moment, but that passed Court for clemency on behalf of the quickly, and I resolved to take hima British soldier, Giving rein to all in and shelter him at all costs, the warmth of her great motherly I was afraid only because there heart she dwelt eloquently on his were neighbours within sight, youth; then, with an uncontrollable and I knew that one or more emotion, she spoke of the loss of her of them must see the soldier son Jules on the battlefeld and of come into my house. My husband her adoption of the unfortunate was then on active service- little soung Cameronian in his

place. later he was taken prisoner--and I Surely even a German military had with me Léon and Marie. We tribunal must have been electrified gave the poor young fugitive some- #ben it heard this wonderful thing to eat, and arranged & Frenchwoman and wonderful mother cachette for him in an outhouse on declare her belief, in the words al- little patch of garden that we ready quoted, that, the British had at the back of the house. He youth had been sent to replace her soon recovered, and then said, awn lost boy:

Ecosatis.' He stayed on with us, and we quickly considered him as Cruickshank's sentence of death was The appeal was not in vain, and, member of

of the family."

commuted to one of ten years' im- The Germans made frequent per-prisonment in Germany. On his quisitions in the Baudhuins' house, relense after the Armistice he mar as in others, and on these occasions ried the French girl Aimée. Mme. Cruickshank was, of course, kept Baudhuin, like the young soldier, carefully in his hiding-place. But spent about two years in prison in as the days went on he spent more Germany. Mme. Baudhuin spoke and more time in the rooms of the in bitter recollection of the hard, house, and he had a number of nar labour, the lack of food, and the row 'escapes from being discovered. brutal On one occasion when Germans en in prison. "I was even beaten treatment that she received tered the house he was pushed into sometimes," she said. The horrar a linen chest, and Madame Baud of it all is as clearly before me húin stood in front of this while now as though I were actually un- the visitors were poking about for dergoing it again." any surplus food that might be The son Léon received his share. in the house. But there was no of the family's-punishment; he was surplus food in those days, and at deported to another district in times it was a matter of difficulty Northern France and given hard to provide for the young Cameroni labour on the land. And the poor an as well for the family, Fre-child Marie, robbed of her mother, quently after this particular per- has sorrowful recollections of two quisition the soldier got into the black years.

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