Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1914 — HER SON FIGHTS FOR BRITAIN [ARTICLE]

HER SON FIGHTS FOR BRITAIN

German Woman Encounters Lad by Chance In Railway fttatlon lit -London.

London. —A well-known German woman, who is married to an Englishman, had a curious experience in London.. r Her son, fifteen years old, is a cadet in a British naval school, and it was her intention to get her son and take him to France to study French.

She reached England in the first days of the mobilization. As she got out of her trail? at Victoria station Bhe saw a procession of naval cadets pass along the platform. She stopped one of the youngsters. "Are you not from the school?" she asked him. Upon his replying affirmatively, she asked what the cadets were doing in London.

“Why, we are. being mobilized,” was the reply. “Mobilized! You are not going to the warships?” she demanded. “That’s what they say.” “Tell me, is Cadet X with you?" "I believe he is on the other side of the station.”

The mother rushed over there and soon found her son. He and his fellows were about to board an outgoing train, and she had only a few minutes to be with him. Then he left for a seaport, and was put on a warship and commissioned a midshipman. .