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(MUTILATED BELGIAN ORPHANt * Tlt; lt;otHe-ati-[*rAI-:oa.\sitb■dhi-oItsfx-Fraueois Gnlecleux, a ten-year-old Belgian refugee, who is now in the G United States. When tlie war broke 8 out he was but six years of age and a was attending, a school in one of the I- tittle Belgian towns that was iater n overrun by the German hordes. While s coming koine from school one day his is _ parents toid him that the Germans had Q invaded his- town. A little later he was j a bit by a fragment of an aerial bomb from a German plane. Getting up he ran toJiis home and there saw hts fam-11 lly killed before his ejes. Francois did i- now know what to do. so lie pushed f oft in a rowboat. After rowing for a day and night he was picked up by sailors of an American transport and , taken to the Municipal hospital in Brest. He v, as treated there for about six montli3 and was finally discharged,No one would adopt him so he wandered about the streets of Brest with « 1 some of his brother unfortunates.• Whenever an American transport ar* 1 j, 3 rived at the port, he and his compan-j ions would rush to the vharf where 5 they would surely get something to eat 0 from some of the sailors. This con-tinned for about two years. Then the . men on the transport that had given ! him food so many times decided .-to make an American of him so they 5 adopted Francois. After making a U 7 . eoHeeiion for him they decided to send - -him to se’uool in the United States, j , - He is to be sent to the boys’ school at I c Germantown, Fa.* AI1*■dfi
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Gettysburg Star and Sentinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Dec 28, 1918
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