SOLDIERS AND TRAM CARS.
TO TKK EDITOR. Sir, —Can you suggest some means by which our returned wounded soldiers might receive a little consideration at the hands of the travelling public? Once or twice I have been thoroughly disgusted at the callousness of passengers on the cars especially do I speak of the Mornington car. No matter how badly wounded onr heroes may be (and they ire heroes, every one of them), the brave lads who left their homes to fight and keep us in ease and comfort, they are expected to stand while women who are strong and healthy calmly take their seats. As for the hill cars, if there’s a crowd they are simply hustled off, and that when they are too badly wounded to help themselves. I think the conductors might be given orders to get them a seat, and a motto, “ Lest we forget,” bo put up in our cars.—l am, etc., Disgusted Passenger. October 19.
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Evening Star, Issue 16559, 19 October 1917, Page 6
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