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Show GOATS AS SPY SIGNAL Shepherd Who Aided Germans With His Flock Sentenced to Death for Treason. Chalons-Sur-Marne. A Frenchman Alfred Durot by name, has been sentenced sen-tenced to death by court-martial for treason. During the battle which raged around Reims the French artillery operating op-erating near the village of Puiseulx was subjected to a terrific bombardment bombard-ment by the Germans, no matter how often they changed their position. A careful watch was kept, and it was discovered that a mile in front of the French batteries a shepherd was feeding feed-ing his flock, among which were five snow-white goats. The shepherd was arrested, and Inquiries In-quiries showed that durirrg the German Ger-man occupation of Puiseulx he was the only inhabitant who had not been molested, mo-lested, and that he had been given the white goats whose presence was to signal the position of the French guns. Durot, at his trial, admitted his guilt. |
