The Archive · 1939

Gallant Girls

A tragic yet inspiring story euclid Vehaviour told at London the Warsaw she ttle hope that any had exeaped, Daily. the patrols went out, carrying hot drinks to the soldiers defending the city, bearing: messages, helping pests, Scores of them, to one tries to brazen the thing out, and pays the more for it in the end. Hope triumphing over experience is never more' disastrously illustrated than in our "attitude towards the the savage common cold Malkows knowledge, were killed by: bomb or bullet, yet they never faltered but went" fearlessly to almost certain death.

Madame Malkowska was in charge of "school in south Poland when the war began, By the end of August she had got most of the children away to Rumania, only about a dozen guides remaining-with her. On September 1 the Germans bombed the school to pieces. Madame Malkowska and her guides were gol away In an evacuation train, but the Germans pursued and bombed It as well as villages along the line. They flew so low that the. girl guides, working among the terrified and stricken villagers, could see the aviators' faces, And yet Hiller says that he docs not make war on" women and children! Which is more loathsome the wanton cruelly or the hypocrisy of these Nazis?

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