Vichy, Nov. 18.
Shepherding three hundred small children through a storm of German artillery and aerial bombardment from one temporary refuge to another, even though she herself was seriously wounded, brought Mademoiselle Jeanne Eugenie Fittere, a Paris school teacher, the highest national tribute that can be given to a civilian Mademoiselle Fittere crying charges through a maelstrom of screaming shells and bombs at Orleans, during the invasion of France, and received a grave wound gh from a fying shell splinter.
"Despite her pain Mademoiselle Fit-tore refused to desert the children until she had delivered them to safety, in the Department of Creuse. She then gave herself up to hospital treatment—United Press,
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