Show RITES FATES QUEER DEER TURNS TOMS coincidences which war has brought forth first man south sea islander speaks to in london Is man he Is looking for other interesting cases london while E 11 II janes a prominent resident of fulham was at charing cross a few days ago ho he noticed a number of men clad in khaki getting out of the train he learned they had just arrived from the far off fiji where they had given up good situations to offer their services to the motherland in her hour of need mr janes asked it if any ally oi of them wore from suva S sure ure replied one of the stalwart Y young oung fellows 1 I come from suva do you know harry janes inquired the man from fulham 1 I should think I 1 do he and I 1 are overseers on the same plantation I 1 have a letter of introduction to his bis brother E B H janes of 0 fulham you can hand it over now said air janes both were amazed to learn that the first man the south sea islander had spoken to on oil reaching london was the very man in all england lie he wished to see this is but one of the extraordinary coincidences which the war has brought forth A london hospital had another remarkable illustration A young soldier was severely wounded in the fighting somewhere in france ho he lost consciousness and when he regained it he was lying comfortably fort ably in a bed in a ward of a large hospital his first words were where am IT I 1 the nurse told him that he was in london that during the period of his unconsciousness lie he had been transported across the channel and that his wounds had been tended he asked the name of the hospital tile the number of the ward the day of the week and the hour the nurse told him 1 I say nurse you might tell my dad I 1 am here tho the nurse looked at him thinking the poor lade lad was in a delirium all right nurse my dads in the next ward now you know he Is the surgeon there and this is his visiting day and so it was the father was in the next ward performing his work thinking all the time that his son was in france he did not even know that the boy was wounded far less that he be was being tended a few yards away writing from the front to friends at llangollen Llan gollen private S N jones of the motor transport A S C relates a peculiar coincidence concerning himself he was a driver on the llangollen wrexham motor bus route and enlisted soon after the commencement of hostilities in france strange to say he was drafted to the identical chassis of the motor he had been driving on the route it having been purchased with many others by the government the manager of the road car company has written to private jones stating that it if it should be possible they will repurchase the car after the war and place upon it a plate recording the circumstances related david henderson a boxhill bowhill soldier belonging to the black watch has a remarkable story to tell of how he was able to pay back on the field of battle the services of a man who saved his life in this country in the piping times of peace about a year ago when taking part in a regatta at wemyss his boat was capsized and he was thrown into the water he had bad been swimming towards the shore for some time when he was picked up in an exhausted condition by a passing boat belonging to dysart strange to say after a force fierce days I 1 fighting in ill france private henderson saw a wounded soldier lying in front of the trenches and on going to his assistance he was struck by something familiar about the wounded m man an henderson then asked his comrade if it was lie he who had saved davie henderson from a watery grave at wemyss the previous summer tf it was ca came me the reply then I 1 a am davie henderson was the dramatic rejoinder henderson then took ME his wounded comrade by the arm and under a heavy fire led him to a place of safety |