The Archive · 1939

Friends Meet in Battle As Enemies

French Racing Cyclist — Captures German Rival

Paris, Dec. g.

Robert Oubron is a famous French racing cyclist and Kurt Stoepel is an equally famed German racer. In 1932 they met in the Tour de France and Stoepel finished second. Last year they met again in Germany: and Oubron finished fourth. Last night they met again in No Man's Land along the Western Front, Now in an infantry sacrifice squad the farthest out of any French troops in No Man's Land, Oubron was on patrol when he clashed with. three Germans on patrol. Each flopped into a shell hole and began shooting. One German was shot through the hand and all three later surrendered. Leading the prisoners back to a dugout, Oubron saw the prisoners' faces for the first time in the light, "Oubron!" cried Stoepel.

"Stoepel!" cried Gubron and immediately dressed the wound of the German cyclist and then led him to a barbed-wire prison camp. Stoepel formerly was an office boy in the United Press Berlin office United Press,

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