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Show SOLDIER GIVES LIFE FOR FIANCEE'S SAKE GENEVA, July 2. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) A French soldier, aged 24, who has neen at the front since 11114, and won the war crons, presented himwelf to the French guard at Neucliatel on the Swiss frontier and said that he must visit his fiancee in Switzerland Switzer-land whom he had not seen for three years. When the guard said that it was Impossible to let him pass, the soldier declared, "I am jj;oins: even if you shoot me. I must see her." As he crosued the frontier the guard fired and the soldier fell dend. |