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Show GUARDSMEN HELPED BY FARMER'S WIPE Prussians Intent On Blowing Blow-ing Up Bridge Thwarted by Woman's Warning. Special Cable lo The Tribune. PAKLS, Sept. 23. A remarkable exploit ex-ploit was told here today of a farmer's wife, Octavia Dclacourt, in lower Normandy. Nor-mandy. At the height of the German invasion in-vasion she had started out to walk through the woods to G on may, near Vanvais. While tramping through the wood she suddenly felt a hand clapped on her shoulder. She turned around and saw a large, heavy man in gray, with a round cap. . , She had never seen a German soldier sol-dier before, but thought this must , be one. Another appeared out of the i wood. They said not a word, but i turned her around and pointed to her ' to go back along the mad by which j she had come. She did so, but when lout of sight turned back and ran northward north-ward again for all she was worth. In the first village she reached she told the gendarmes, farmers, the post-! post-! mistress and everyone she met that there were Prussians in the wood near by and was laughed at. At last the post mist res?, at her entreaty, telegraphed tele-graphed the authorities and at the same time three gendarmes set out for I the wood. 1 The woman 's information proved well worl h listening to. A non-commissioned of tlccr and eleven German soldiers were stopped and taken, near Dispel, just above Rouen. They had set out in motor cars to blow up Oissel I bridge with explosives. The destruc-Itioti destruc-Itioti of that bridge might have fatally hampered t lie communications between the Britbh expeditionary force and the hae. The tier in a n cars were stopped. thanks to the presence of mind of the j territorials guarding the line, who fired shots into the tire. One of the cars was a truck containing a ton of cxplo-I cxplo-I sives. I The three gendarmes who first set lout on the trail discovered by the ia Miller's Mil-ler's wife were ail killed. |