A PERSEVERING BOY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13744, 6 April 1915, Page 6

A PERSEVERING BOY.

There lives in Paddmgton a boy who is not yet thirteen, but who has had a series of exciting adventures in his determined efforts to fight against the Germans. When the war broke out he mad© more than one effort to enter the Army, but was always met by two fatal objections—he was too young and lie was too small. About Christmas he' wetr to Folkestone, that being bis Me» of th© best way to get near the fighting. When walking along the front at Folkestone he met * lady who was a customer at the butcher's shop afc Paddington where he &a# wofke& Slate gave him 5s as a Christmas bos, and he at once bought a ticket for "Flushing. By making himself useful in carrying luggage on tho boat he earned 10s 4d, find as he mad© no secret of his desire to fight the Germans, he attracted some attention. Eventually he was sent.to a home at Flushing, but he escaped, joined some Belgians, and later foxmd himself at 'Antwerp. He was taken prisoner by tli© Germans, and a lieutenant told him that if he had been a year older lie would have been sent to & concentration camp. He was allowed to return to England. Landing at Tilbury Docks, he was taken to the Alexandra Palace in the.belief that,he was a Belgian refugee, but in a fortnight he was restored to his parents at Paddington. He now hopes to enter th© Navy.