A LITTLE HEROINE

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 133, 2 December 1915, Page 7

A LITTLE HEROINE

THRILLING STORY OF THE SEA

FOUR DAYS IN AN OPEN BOAT.

(Received December 2, 8.3G a.m.) LONDON, Ist December. Mr. Martin Dcnohoe, the war correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, tells a thrilling story of heroism on the part of an eight-year-old girl passenger on the steamer Bosnia, which was submarined near Candia- on the 14th November.

In a boat she drifted for four days, the boat being buffeted by a furious wind and an angry sea. With the little girl were her brothers, of three and two years of age. Tile children had been separated from their parents, who were in another boat. They were scantily clad, but the girl's tournge never wavered. She cheered the sailors, and clasped her little brothers in her arms to impart warmth to them. On the third day the food and water in the bent were finished. Then land was

sighted, but the crew were too exhausted to reach the shore. The girl exhorted them to make further efforts, and herself helped at the oars. To add to the horror of the situation, an Italian passenger went mad, slashed an artery in his arm, and sought to attack his companions. A desperate strugg!e took place, but- finally he was overpowered. The wind dropped, and the boat reached Alikros Island, Crete.