LIVE SHELL IN A VILLAGE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8777, 3 April 1907, Page 1

LIVE SHELL IN A VILLAGE.

| lii : little Sussex fishing village of j SeLey, famous for its lobsters, and i Ijing on tbe south oast a few miles j from Chirher' r, had a startling exI perfence r .emdy. A shell from a warship in the S Channel whistled over the houses | about half-past three o'clock, and, j facing in a meadow just beyond the of >he village with a loud exI plosion, slavthd all the inhabitants. 1 The projectile came to the ground | ■within a hundred yards of “The | Fishermen’s Joy ” inn. Mr H. A . ! Smith, brother of the innkeeper, I was thrown down by the concession. No person was injured, j The shell, in exploding, ploughed j the earth lo a depth of five or six I feet over a space of nine or ten I yarns, and became embedded in the | soil. Part of the broken earth was th'.own for a distance of fifty yards. I Wnon the danger was realised, ! the village, s congratulated themselves on their escape for the line of flight had been directly over the hotel and several bouses, and if the projectile bad descended in Selsey, instead of some fifty yards beyond, the consequences must have been lamentable.

Tbo Adininlty was notified o£ the occi 'Tence. No ship was in sight at the fine, and a thick haae rest-doted the sea view to some few miles. But the Daily Mail’s Portsmouth correspondent surmises that the stray shell came from the new cruiser Warrior, which was known to be caivy'ug out her gnu trials in the Olid. -nol. Most probably it ri-coeh-?iled from the cea.