Word: gobert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germans because she admitted using her Red Cross prerogatives to shelter and further the escape of some 200 Allied soldiers, prisoners of the Germans. The revelation prompted a search for more hidden Allied soldiers. One day a German captain came to search the house of Mme. Belmont-Gobert...
Thoroughgoing, he and his men sounded the walls and floors for secret hiding places, uttered awful threats. Mme. Belmont-Gobert only sat passive in her sitting room. At last the captain wrenched open the right-hand door of her large black armoire (wardrobe), snorted to see it divided into small shelves incapable of holding a rabbit, banged the right-hand door shut without opening the left-hand door, strode away...
...lean, starvation War years passed, Mme. Belmont-Gobert was obliged to take her French neighbors into the secret of who hid behind her left-hand wardrobe door. Loyal, they did not betray her to the Germans, who paid well for such secrets. Instead the French villagers sent food from their own meagre rations to le soldat Anglais...
...space 5½ feet high and 20 inches deep. Sometimes at night he dared to steal out and sit with his protectress before her fire-but no chance to escape ever came. Not until Oct. 10, 1918, did the Germans march away. Then Private Fowler took Mme. Belmont-Gobert in his arms, dashed water over her face and gave her a sup of wine-she had fainted...
Last week, Private Fowler's regiment, the Tenth British Hussars, sent ?100 ($486) to Mme. Belmont-Gobert, found to be in actual want. When news of this gift reached Paris, the HONOR OF FRANCE was invoked by War Minister Paul Painlevé who demanded in the Chamber that further British gifts be made unnecessary by the granting of a pension to Dame Belmont-Gobert...