LATE MAIL NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1917, Page 3

LATE MAIL NEWS.

Man’s Wonderful Escape.

London, Jen. 10

Hundreds of people who saw a man fall between the platform and a train at Charing Cross Underground station last night will be astonished to know that not only did he escape with his life, but also that his injuries are very slight. Supreme coolness saved his life.

The people waiting for an incoming train saw just as the train entered the station the man slip over the platform edge. The train was upon him in a second. Women screamed and fainted.

But the man—Mr George Burrows, of 3, New Cottages, Shoebury, Southend—had retained liis presence of mind. He threw liimselt backwards so that he lay almost on his back on the platform with his legs dangling over, pressed close to the brickwork. The footboards of the carriages scraped his thighs as they passed. Mr Burrows was picked up at once and removed to Charing Cross Hospital. Here it was found he had sustained only superficial injuries, and ho was actually able to go home after the wounds on his legs had been dressed.

Women Who Won’t Wear Trousers. London, Jan. 10. Women railway carriage-cleaners and station porters sympathise with the four women munition workers who refused to wear trousers. At several country and suburban stations on the Great Eastern Railway and the South Western Railway these women workers wore divided overalls of peg-top trousers shape until the wintry weather convinced them that skirts were warmer, and now they have decided not to return to the trousers.

. “It would not be suitable for us to wear trousers at the large London stations,” said a South-Western woman cleaner wearing blue overalls yesterday. “ Soldier travellers chaff us quite enough as it is. But they are very good to us and always give a hand with the porters’ work if they find us doing any. Cleaning carriages is more a woman’s work fchau a man’s, and I have no wish to wear man’s clothes when I’m doing it.”

Women window-cleaners prefer overall trousers.