GERMAN BEREAVEMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 10 January 1916, Page 8

GERMAN BEREAVEMENT.

A DRAMATIC INCIDENT.

\ ;....; Vorwaits (organ of German Socialists) vouches" for the following story, and publishes it without comment (states a .'London.paper):—"The other day a won an travelling from Bremen to Oldenburg had a terrible experience. In the compartment into which slie mounted, two young girls and a man accompanying a woman were already seated; The woman began almost at. once to count on her fingers, 'one, two, three,' repeating these words at short intervals. The two girls tittered and made remarks to • roe another about "the extraordinary behaviour of the "woman. Every time the woman counted her three fingers the girls, without thinking _ thjit probably there was something behind her strange conduct,, renewed their giggling. "The man who accompanied the woman, irritated at their silly laughter, turned to them with the remark, 'You as ill perhaps coase- your stupid-giggling when. I ten ypii that this is my wife. ' and that she has lost three sons in battle, lam taking her to an asylum.' ''It was afterwards terribly quiet in the carriage."