Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1914 — HER SON FIGHTS FOR BRITAIN [ARTICLE]

HER SON FIGHTS FOR BRITAIN

German Woman Encounters Lad by Chance in Railway Station in London.

London. —A well-known German woman, who is married to an Englishman, bad a curious experience in London . 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 Prance to study French.

/ She reached England in the first days of the mobilization. As she got out of her train at Victoria’ station she saw a procession of naval cadets pass along Yhe 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,” whs the reply.

“Mobilized! You are not going to the warships?” she'demanded. “That’s what they say." “Tell me, is Cadet X with you?" “1 believe he is on the other side of the station.”

The mother rushed oyer 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.