El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-18
PARIS To HONOR
HEROINE Of L09S
ON 50LDIERDi
Young Girl is Hailed by he
Army and People as a
New Joan of Arc.
COMPELS RESPECT
OF THE GERMANS
By RACnNTETsE-

D&RIS. France, Dec. 1S.-Am Paris
lennes. from the most aristocratic
duchess in Faubourg Saint Ger
main to the humbIest midinette on
Montmartre are working hard to make
the coming ..iOurnees des pOilus" on
Saturday and Sunday next an unexcel-
led success. If the leading Paris so
ciety women have their way the beau
rful heroine Of LoOs, Mademoiselle
Emilienne Moreau. viii be the guest Of
honor
Certainly no woman in France de
serves 10 be hOnOred more than TINS
seventeen year old girl whom an Eng
lsh officer, who saw her during the
memorable fight, called the Joan OF
arc of the North.
When the war broke out. Emilienne
Aloreau was living aILOos with her old
father and mother. dividing her time
between Homework and studies. Tor II
was her ambition to become a teacher
one morning in October last year the
first German Uhlans arrived at Loos,
while closely behind them followed
strong columns Of infantry which sur
rounded the town For almost an en-
tire year they remained and during
that long period fmiienne kept them
at a respectful distance She is girl
OF unusual beauty
mind. her ingenious appeals TO their
sense Of honor she won the German
Officers respect and the lew bad ele-
ments who were among them were
severely warned TO leave her alone by
the officer in command an old colonel
who is the father Of two daughters OF
about her age.
The girl Became the shield OF her
humble home. the protector Of her mo-
Their. her younger sister ana her
brother q fair-haired boy Of ten years
She became the guardian angel. who
for countless nights kept watch at the
bedside of her aged father and kept the
end came, for he died Of a broken heart
unable to bear a second invasion OF the
beloved country Tor which ne nao
fought forty-four years before
When IL was necessary TO bury hlIn
there was no carpenter to make q coz
lin. and no boards to make II WITH
rEmiIienne, aided by her brother. found
the necessary boards in the German
trenches and with her own hands made
When September. 1915. came Emil
ienne noticed that the Germans were
becoming restless and worried Ru-
rnors began to circulate that the Eng
lish We're advancing ana tnal the
dreaded Scotch Highlancers were ABOUT
The i1s'' battle BEGAN and for three days
she remained there. terrified and at the
same time spellbound with admlratlon (
of what she saw. forgetting munger
The walls 1remhIed and part Of the !
roof came down, While scores q tts
neighboring buildings were turned /
into Ehapeless ruins
At last. after the agOnizing cries OF /
.he wounded and dying came lne I
shouts Of triumph OF the English me /
Germans were driven out AT last ana /
the English entered
The street outside was full OF 0ead /
bodies and the cutters were running
red Wounded men begged her to give I
them q drop Of water Inelr UNIFORMS /
Iold her that they were the hlgnianq-
ers, of whom the Germans had peen IN I
such fear. One by one she picked lneIn /
IN She was not very strong. Out nef 1
desire to help the deliverers OF her I
home lent her the strength of a man /
parched Hps and bandaged their \
wounds with the first aid packages she !
found in their inside pockets
When the English ambulance corps
arrived she had bandaged them all, /
saving more than a score OF nNes, Dut
before that she had kllled VIZ
her own hands five Germans VINO,
hidden in a cellar. had fired on the
wounded Scots. Three she killed with
a hand grenade and two she shot down
with a revolver she took from a Iaiieh
Suddenly at the entrance Of the vii
laze q thousand voices started singing
God save the King" and Emlienne
Joined in the singing She ran toWaros
the soldiers and when they had finished
she sang the MarseilIaise with all the
strength Of her young lungs
The soldiers locked AROUND ms
wonderful young girl who had suddenly
appeared among them as if by mir
acie and in a few moments they, too,
were singing the glorious battle hymn
OF Rouget de Isle
The English general commanding the
British force. Sir Douglass H2lg, sent
for her and in front Of his victorious
frooDs he expressed his admiration OF Z
her courage and thanked her for what
she had done.
The women Of Paris want this hero
inc to be the guest OF the president o.
France and Madame Poincare during
the soldiers days. and as for the ar
fists here-weu. you may feel sure that
more than one sculptor and painter
viii immortalize the new Joan OF Arc