A BELGIAN MOTHER'S PILGRIMAGE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 140, 16 February 1915, Page 7

A BELGIAN MOTHER'S PILGRIMAGE.

A young Belgian soldier who had been thrice wounded was received at the Lincoln military hospital a few weks ago, and wrote at once to his parents in Liege, being more anxious to know of their welfare than to inform them of his wounds. When the postcard was delivered the mother resolved to go to Lincoln. She and her husband, in the guise of peasants, pushing a hand-barrow piled with potatoes and other goods, escaped through the German lines, and tramped all the way to the frontier. Their only guide to their destination was the postcard, hidden in the woman's stocking. Once across the frontier the barrow wasi abandoned, and the pair took train 1 : > the coast. They could not speak a word of English, but they reached Lincoln safely, and met their son in hospital.