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Show MOTHER HAS SOUVENIR FROM HER SON'S LEG Nurc Brings Mrs. Scanlan the Bit of Shrapnel That Injured Her Son Now York, Jan. 8. Miss Floronco Gordon, a nurse, Just returned from I'Hcspltul do Francais do Now York at Lens, Frnnco, said sho had brought bark for Mrs. J. M Scon'an of Co darhurst, L. I., a pleco of shrapnel removed from tho broken leg of I.awrcnco Scanlan who was wounded In tho battlo of Arras. Scanlan, who Is 21, Joined tho foreign for-eign legion Inst Novcmbor. He has studied hero at an electrical collego and Intended to try wireless operating operat-ing In Europe Mrs. Scanlan was not greatly surprised sur-prised when Informed thnt sho would receive a gruesomo souvenir of her son's wound. "Ho wroto ho was sending mo a messngo," sho said, "and asked mo whether I wanted tho fragment of shrapnel. I didn't think I did want It. Put now that ho has sent It I do want it." Miss Gordon went over from the French hospital hero with nlno other oth-er nurses nnd wns aboard La Tou-ralne Tou-ralne when it caught flro In February Febru-ary of last year. |