HEROIC MOTHER.
MILKS COWS AMID BULLETS.
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LOXDCttT, May 25. While German 'planes- zoomed overhead machine-gunning a Belgian train trammed with refugees, a woman jumped out to milk a cow in a nearby field to get milk for three babies. \ Bullets spattered round her as she calmly filled several empty beer bottlee with milk, then clutching them in her arme she ran back to the train. She was Mm. Rennie Thorn, Belgian wife of Mr Arthur Thorn, retired sea captain, of Dovereourt, Essex. After travelling for a week without sleep and with practically nothing to eat, she arrived home. Our train took 24 hours from Antwerp to Ypres," she said thie week. "Normally the. journey take*, an hour. All the time we were machine-gunned and several people were killed and wounded. The babies had to be fed. I suppose I was lucky not to Save been killed while milking the cow."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1940, Page 14
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