A BABY HEROINE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2634, 3 December 1915, Page 5

A BABY HEROINE

THRILLING STORY o/ AN EIGHT- . - . ■ YEAR-OLD GIRL. By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright London, December 1. Mr. Martin Donohoe, the war correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," tells a thrilling story of heroism ,on the part of an eight-year-old girl passenger on the steamer Bosnia, which was submarined, near Candia on November 14.

In a boat she drifted for four days, (•he boat being buffeted by a furious wind and an angry sea.. With the little; "girl were her brothers, of three and two " years of age. The children had been ••separated from their parents, who were rin. another boat. They were scantily feted? but"the' ; girl ! s, : 'courage never wavered. ' She cheered, the sailors, and clasped her little brothers in Tier arms 'to impart- warmth to them.". On the • third day the food and water in the . boat were finished. Then land was sighted, but the crew were too exhausted to reach the shore. The girl exhorted them to make further efforts, and herself helped at the oars. To add to the horror of the situation, an Italian passenger went mad, slashed an artery in his arm, and sought to attack his companions. , A .desperate struggle took place, but finally he was \ overpowered. The wind dropped, and the boat reached Mikros Island, Crete.