Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1917 — DEFIED THE BRITISH ARMY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEFIED THE BRITISH ARMY

Mmq. Simone Puget, the widow of a wellrknown French publicist, photographed on her arrival in New York. Monsieur Puget, a French officer with the English expeditionary forces in France, was mortally wounded during May, 1916, in the battle of Arras and lay, dying, in a Belgian military hospital near the -firing line. Madame Puget endeavored to procure permission to visit and care for him, but was refused because of the great danger. She thereupon cut off her hair and disguising herself as ' a French soldier managed to work her way through the world’s most Strictly guarded military line to her husband’s bedside, where Puget will tour America lecturing on her husband's work and her own experiences in the war zone.