PATRIOTIC LECTURE

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 82, 5 October 1915, Page 2

PATRIOTIC LECTURE

Mr. Robert Clegg, a citizen of Dunedin, had the misfortune to be strandeded in France at the outbreak of the war, and for the following four months had a series of exciting adventures. He had to take a journey on a troop train from Paris to Nice; got carried on to Genoa in the whirl of repatriated Italians; bought a steerage passage to Barcelona with a, view to getting to neutral territory, but W3B carried instead to Rio de Janeiro; too a cargo boat for New York, which was captured and sunk by the auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm; spent a couple of weeks on the German cruiser somewhere in the Atlantic; crept back to Rio in a col Her that had coaled the cruiser ; got through successfully at the second attempt to New York on a cargo boat, and finished up the trip home by the San Francisco route. Mr. Clegg is now putting this unjiremeditated string of adventures to use, and has undertaken a patriotic lantern lecture tour of the Dominion in aid of the Wounded Soldiers Fund, which, as a result of the tour to date, has benefited to the extent of, roughly, £450, which Mr. Clegg hopes to increase to £500 at hie final lecture, which is to be given in the Concert Chamber on Saturday evening next, when the Mayor will preside. Mr. Clegg is paying all his own travelling expenses, and takes no fee whatever.