HEROIC WOMAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16212, 24 August 1923, Page 6

HEROIC WOMAN.

COURAGE OF CAPTAIN’S WIFE

Elec. Tel Copyright -United Press Assn.i .Australian and N.Z Cable Association.) LONDON, Aug. 22.

The Daily Chronicle’s Cardiff correspondent says: ‘‘All the world praised the courage of Captain Cecil Foster, skipper of the wrecked Trevessa. I have discovered another member of tho Foster family who has, shown heroic courage. This is his young wife, who lias been unable to leave her bed in their pleasant seaside home at Barry, for 13 weeks through neuritis. She has been unablo to see anyone till this week. Sitting up in bed she told how she had not seen her husband since January 1, when she saw him off at Liverpool. “I always saw him off and met him when ho came in, but I am too ill to meet him at Tilbury to-morrow. Friends have promised to carry me to a motor car to take me to Cardiff to meet him there,” she said. “Not desiring to worry him I never told my husband of my illness till he reached Las Palmas on tho present homeward , voyage. I should not have told him then, but I knew ho would be alarmed if I was not at Tilbury to meet him.”

Mrs. Foster was full of life when her husband went away. Now she can neither work nor stand. She suffered greatly when she heard of the Trevessa’s fate, but is gradually recovering.