OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 58, 27 July 1944, Page 1

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES.

. . Two small boys, both living in Lancashire, were recently the means of bringing two fellow-Lancastrians together on the R.A.F. station, where they arc serving in So*ath Africa. These infants, one aged 3s, the other 2|, did this by radio. The two Lancastrians were their daddies, and one daddy nearly missed the ( * connection. ’ ’ A njonth or two back, the elder boy, Jan Davidson, was brought by his mother to a BBC studio in Manchester. He was to send a message to his father, a leading aircraftsman, in the programme “it’s All Yours,” directed on that occasion to South Africa. Among the party of message senders lan met the still smaller Rhys Williams. Rhys prompted by mother, greeted his father Corporal Reginald Williams. The BBC has since learned that the recipients of these messages, far away in South Africa, were serving on the same station. L.A.C. Davidson had been warned by cable to listen to the programme. But, when the cable arrived, he was on leave. Had he returned by his usual leave train he would have missed his small son’s message. But finding there was going to be a long wait at one station, he decided to “hitch-hike” back to camp. He was lucky in getting lifts. He got back to find the cable waiting, and realised the broadcast was about due. He dashed to the hut next door, where there was a wireless, and was just in time to hear lan’s message, which came to him clearly and distinctly, even to the kiss at the end.