THE ENGLISH MOTHER.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 April 1919, Page 2

THE ENGLISH MOTHER.

The Bishop of Chelmsford (Dr. Watts Ditehfiold), at St. Botolph 's, Bishopsgate, told thn story of a brave Bethnal Green woman who had lost her son. He was in a British submarine, which saved a liner by intercepting an enemy torpedo. The British submarine was destroyed, all on board perishing. The mother of the sailor, on being interviewed, said, "Was it not a mod thing that the torpedo struck the submarine? "But your boy was in tin- submarine," said the interviewer. "Yes." replied the mother, "but it' it had struck the liner there would lv a thousand women like me."