A PLACE FOR A HERO

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 May 1915, Page 2

A PLACE FOR A HERO

D. Cnmbania has eontributd a moving little article to the latest issue of T.P.s Journal of Great Deeds of the Great War, an article full.of anecdotes and experiences of the way in whicft Mounded men have been honored or neglected:—"Some time afterwards," he says, "I was standing in the corridor of a tr.amcar- in Athens, when, helped by the conductor, a legless young soldier, leaning on crutches, entered. The seats were occupied, and the lame man was trying to steady himself in a corner of the jostling car, when a feeble; trembling old gentleman, with a snaking head, raising himself from his seat, offered it to the soldier. The. poor lad blushed, and tried to refuse: but the old man insisted, and the soldier, saluting and mumbling his thanks, sat. At once the people in the car rose, eagerly offering their seats to the trembling old gentleman who had given them so fine a lesson. I felt a lump in my throat and a shiver race in mv veins, for the kind old man was a well-known retired general with an historic name.'.'