"DEAD" MOTHER MEETS HER "DEAD" SON.
About 12 years ago a Mrs Paul, who then lived at Wimbledon, wont to Canada, and some time afterwards her son in England hoard by letter that she had diet!. Soon after the outbreak of war the son joined the South Wales Borderers, and the troopship on which ho was going to the Dardenolles was sunk. Ho was saved, but news was sent to his mother —who was still alive in Canada— that he had been drowned. She wore mourning for him. However, be came through the war unscathed and is now working at a munition factory at. Kingston-on Thames. \ few da vs ago Mrs Paul arrived in England on a visit, and at Wimbledon was overjoyed to hoar that her son was still living. She set out to Kingston to see him, and on Imr way to the works where he is employed she. met him unexpectedly in the street. Each had thought the other dead, and the shock and glad surprise of the meeting may bo imagined.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1705, 19 December 1919, Page 5
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