Show BOY HAD SPIRIT OF HIS RACE how the captain s boy mackinnon of the Camer onla helped to allay panic in the report of the torpedoing of 0 the tha anchor liner Camer onla with willi troops trompa in the mediterranean last sum suma i mer mention was mado made of the eplen did conduct ot of the captains boy mackinnon this youngster was on bridge with the captain when the ship was wag struck and ho he did much to allay the excitement by shouting through the megaphone to the troops keep our heads men dinna got excited cic tea its ita a richt nae hurry and so on the sight of the small boy with a megaphone as big as himself advising the soldiers to keep cool made many laugh and quieted many mady nerves the boy did many other thin things s and at the tha end the captain found bo be had disobeyed orders and wai was still on the bridge bride go when everyone else had left the chip when the captain told him top to clear out lie he said ill no go till you go sir the captain then caught him by the coat and slung clung him overboard into the destroyer before jumping himself an e eyewitness ye witness on the destroyer described seeing the captain and the tha boy on the bridge of the sinking ship chip I 1 hear now that mackinnon went down in the tha Tuscan la probably he ha behaved there as he did on the cam eronia and the death he just missed in the mediterranean came to him off the scottish coast in the list of heroes of our mercantile marine there ought to be a pla place ce for this gallant wee glasgow lad london correspondence of tho the manchester guardian |