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Show HER SON FIGHTS FOR BRITAIN German Woman Encounters Lad by Chance in Railway Station in London. London. A well-known German wodian, who is married to an Englishman, English-man, had a curious experience in Lon don. Her son, fifteen years old, Is a cadet in a British naval school, anc it was her intention to get her sor. and take him to France to studj French. She reached England in the firs' days of the mobilization. As she go: out of her train at Victoria statiot she saw a procession of naval cadeti pass along the platform. She stoppec one of the youngsters. "Are you not from the school?' she asked him. Upon his replyinf affirmatively, she asked what tht cadets were doing In London. "Why, we are being mobilized,' was the reply. "Mobilized! You are not going tc the warships?" she demanded. "That's what they say." "Tell me, Is Cadet X with you?" "I believe he is on the other std of the station." The mother rushed over there and soon found her son. He and his fel lows 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. |