LORD MONTAGU IN PARIS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 April 1916, Page 3

LORD MONTAGU IN PARIS

(i'nun A Correspondent.) Loid .Montagu of Ueattlieu. who 'lad a- uuiderlul escape from the torpedoed j.\ i,ud O. liner I'ersia, has reached I'uris, and is staying with Ilia old iruiid Lord Uertir- at the -British Kmbassy. He is still Hiiffering a good deal trout Uu'k ol she]) juid pain _ from wounds, but ho is progressing favourably, and it' we!l enough lie will leave lor J.jpdon to-niorrow. Speaking c-f his experiences while drifting about tlio Mediterranean, lie said:— Li tiring my last 24 hours in the sea J thought as a reasonable man that it was all over. At the end of the second day 1 was tesigned to. my fate, but determined to fight to the end. C'uriousiy enough I suffered very little Irani hunger .but a good dieal from thirst. W ucii the I'er.sia sank and I was •siick.-d under 1 was Knocked against ihe .ship and bits ot wreckage,' add >\ hen I came to the surface I was oad,'y bruised through colliding with all kinds of dobris. i really owe my life to the fact that 1 was wearing a Gieve inflatable waistcoat-, for I kept slipping off the wreckage to which 1 was clinging, and then it was only the waistcoat that kept uii l alloat. . .Lord -Montagu retains among souvenirs of his amazing at'iventure a •waterstained passport and a .L's note, which were in lis poeketbi ok all the time lie was in the water. After liis arrival at Malta Lord Montagu received a meti-sage erf 'congratulation from tlio King.