BLIND MEN OF THE WAR.
FIRST TWO FRENCHMEN. There was a pathetic srenp in France the other day at the funeral of Dr. Racine, the blind man who was killed iti the sfreel, in spite of the fact, that he carried his white stick. In the funeral procession were the two first Frenchmen to be blinded in the Great War, wounded in the Rattle of the Maine, in the first week of September, 1914.
"I 1 am not rich," wrote a man in Relleville. enclosing five francs for the widow and children of Dr. Racine. " 1 am only a poor, blind briishmaker. Rut, being lhe father of a family, I cannot forget that each of us in this life js at the mercy of fale." Dr. Racine was struck by a car in the street', carrying I lie white cane, which has been adopted as the badge of the blind in the Paris streets. The fact that the stick did not save him has brought forth the proposal that the while canes of the blind should be given official recognition in the traffic codo of the French capital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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