THE ANGELS OF MONS.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 245, 18 November 1915, Page 7

THE ANGELS OF MONS.

The following is an extract from a letter written by Miss Fanny Balfour to her cousin in Melbourne :

“I heard something that mighi interest you. A cousin of mine, one of the Buchanans, told me. She gave no names, only initials. A lady, the daughter of a landed proprietor in Devonshire was interviewing a >oldier (I suppose wounded) and he said to he r, about the retreat, quite early in the war, from Mons, ‘Madam, it was awful. The Germans came on in such fearful numbers, and we were in confusion, and had to retreat. When suddenly I saw a great angel, with outspread wings, between us and the Germans. He seemed to shut them off. and we all got away safely.’ The lady was telling ’his to her brother at home, and two officers who h.ul also been in that fight, and she rather smiled a f it as magination, when the colonel at her gravely and said, ‘The man vas quite right. I saw it too.’ ” “Isn’t that beautiful?” the letter continues. “It gave me* such a feeling of God on our side. You know in that early action our men were left for a while without any support, tremendously outnumbered, and people said how marvellous* it was our men were not all eut to pieces. This, to my mind, accounts for it. The age* of miracles is not past. Our extremity was God’s opportunity.”