Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1915 — DIED SINGING ‘MARSEILLAISE [ARTICLE]

DIED SINGING ‘MARSEILLAISE

Alsatian Boy Chanted French National Hymn as Life Ebbed Out. Paris.—A pathetic story is told of the death of a seventeen-year-old Alsatian boy in the hospital at SL Nazaire the other day. The boy had fought successfully in .Belgium, on the Marne and Ypres. At Dixmude he was wounded in the left thigh, right arm and other parts of the body. The youth showed wonderful stoicism. When he was dying his mother asked him if, now that he knew what war was, he would be willing if he lived to undergo his sufferings again. The boy answered unhesitatingly: “There is no doubt about it, mother." He then bade farewell to all the other patients in the ward, thanked the nurses and died singing the “Marseillaise.”