A THRILLING STORY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 285, 2 December 1915, Page 5

A THRILLING STORY.

HEROINE OF EIGHT YEARS,

SUBMARINE VICTIMS CHEERED

\N.D ENCOURAGED

(Received Doc. 2, BM-, ,a. ; .-m.)

:*- LONDON? Dec. 1. Mr Martin Donohoe tells a thrilling .story of the heroism of an eight-year-old girl, a passenger on the steamer Bosnia, which was sunk by a. submarine near Candia. She wa» in a boat adrift for four days, buffeted by .". furious wind and an angry sea. She had with her her brothers", <'i|ged throe .",nd two years. They were separated from their parents, who were in another boat. They were but scantily <ilad. The girl's courage never^ wavered. She cheered the sailors" and clasped her little brothers in her arms-to impart warmth. On the third day their food and water were finished a.rid[' land wassighted. The crow were too exhausted to reach the shore. The girl exhorted them t.o further efforts, sukl herself helped at ilie oars. s"~: To' Sdd to the honors, an Italian ..passenger went mad and slashed an artery in his arm. He then sought to. attack. his companions. After ,;>^'cy-ynM struggle he was fikally tjv-ei-poAyerod. Therwind dropped and the. ;hoa,t reached Mikros, an island, in .Crete.