THREE TIMES BLOWN UP

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 3

THREE TIMES BLOWN UP

MUNITION GIRL'S ADVENTURES. Hannah Spash, a happy-faced girl of 20, is one of tho girl workers to whom the King and Queen spoke during a visit to a munition factory in the London area. "Tho King asked me whether I liked the' dangerous work better than any other," she said later, and I replied, to the King's amusement, _ 'Well, T have been blown up three times, Your Majesty, so I have got used to it.' And so I have. The first time I was very lucky. A pot of .a certain chemical dropped in my shed and the explosion blew an arm off the girl, standing next to me, but I escaped almost unhurt. "The second time'the explosion blew up the table at which I was working, and it was wonderful that- I did not have both legs blown off instead of having only a knee and foot dislocated and my face .badly scarred. You can see | the scars now. The third time : was when I was working in a gunpowder shed. The eplosion blew the shed to pieces and killed two girls. I was flung out on to a field, and only recovered consciousness while being taken home. "All the accidents happened in a year, and t had to be away three months after two of them, but I was always longing to got back to the work. I am still on explosives. Why do I like it? Well, I am very fond of > | brother who is fighting in France, am©] I like it because it helps him and the j others who are there." j