Show f FRENCH ENGH HERO GIVES LIFE UfE TO SAVE HIS FRIENDS Takes Responsibility for Shot Fired at Random and Faces Firing Squad COTT Correspondence a Associated Press Pres PARIS Jan JaD The O.-The 20 The story hat has reached Paris Pari of how hon a 1 teacher himself to save C the mayor cure and a number of or citizens of ot his village In the Aisne s a few miles from the Be Belgian an frontier Aft After r the tho battle of Charleroi the Germans captured the village tillage of D D- D without firing rin a l shot and a company of the Prussian guards ma made o it their headquarters head bea quarters quarters for two da days s Toward the tho end of the second day while tho the Germans were preparing to I leave 0 the village a ashot ashot ashot shot rang from rom no ono one knows knoW where The Tho German officer in in iD command hastened at once to the tho mayor A dozen en hostages were vere required upon the spot to be besot snot before nightfall if the guilty man was not denounced or did not ire ivo him himself up Xo No one had been hit b by y the shot but the officer declared that he had bar heard beard the bullet whistle close to his head Very well said aid the tho mayor you yon want ant hostages Hero Here I am tm to begin bein with And ADd I also aha declared the care Three of the tho older inhabitants of the village Milage came camo forward which made fi e Then the Germans took seven seen more In Inc habitants habih into an open field near neRr the church The firing riD squad was wae ready read and tho bost hostages l lined iced ned up against a a a. arvall wall when tho the school teacher M. M Michon ran upI up H I I am the guilt on one ho said paid situ sim simply sim ply II Yes Yes is I r it who is tire fired just now no Release these mon men and take me mo I a am in read ad Im I'm r ready not afraid to die dio Several of tho the villagers present ba had pon on Michon lichon leave o his schoolhouse house with his pupils at the exact moment when the tho shot was T fired But he pe persisted in in his declaration tion and at 7 i 0 o'clock clock in the evening he was ms shot phot |