A HEROINE OF THIRTEEN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 249, 9 February 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

A HEROINE OF THIRTEEN.

FIXE C()( RAGE DURING ZKITELIX RAID.

A litt.e gir. of 13 appeared iit the .lausion House l;i>t month before the . , -Mayor of London, to he presented >Mth a gold wristlet watch—the git of tho I arnegie Hero I rust- Fund—for a great act ol heroism she performed durlni- a "Oppelin raid. {sir \\ m. Treloar told of how the little ■ icroii";. was sitting up with her grandmother, waiting for her parents to come ' oni "\ w ''en the bombs began to fall ) f .- N 'l'e top of tho house the why had heen put to bed, and though ( ' p Su | lrs wpre locking and some of the steps had disappeared, the girl's first thought and act was to rush up and hi'ug tie ntant dean. She could not walk down, hut she somehow got through tho wreckage into the street. Here in the excessive darkness alj lights having been extinguished she knelt down and prayed. She then nude her way to a hospital, where the baby was taken into safe custody, and the surgeon, on examining the girl, found her bleeding and wounded, and a piece of was taken from her ear. It was indeed, said the Alderman, a most r.eroic thing that tho girl had accompl'shed. Ihe I.erd Mayor said such pluck by n girl <'f tender years must arouse :i thrill of pride throughout the country. She had shown all those qualities which had prod need in England the Florence Nightingales of the present war. and her action would be the admiration of ta-« motherhood of the country.