Brings Honour and Tragedy
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Devotion To Duty
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Feb. 4.
A HUMBLE heroine of the Ducos leper colony here, Sister Othilde (Madame Lea Billaud), has recently been decorated by General de Gaulle, at the suggestion of Governor Laigret. She has received the Gold Medal “des Epidemics.”
For years past she has been caring for the lepers with simple devotion, and she has now contracted the drpad malady herself, although that has not been allowed to interfere with the accom plishment of her life’s work.