A COOL SHAVE.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 October 1919, Page 2

A COOL SHAVE.

‘ It was generally known at the time when air raids were nightly experiences, that one of the great objectives of the enemy was Woolwieh; but com-pa.l-atively few people——even alll‘oll'g the many thousands. of workers there—— were aware of several narrow escapes of the Arsenal, so-bserves a writer in the Pal]. M=a]:l Gazette. An official states ‘that they still talk at Woolwich of the sang-froid «of af young engineer on one of the stafis ini_the danger area during many an anxious time. On the Saturday morning of the great daylight raid the workers Were, of course, hurriedly brought out of those deathtraps where they were filling shells and fuses Work being suspended_ this eng'ineel' seized the opportunity while guns were banging, bombs exploding, and German Toulges thufdding overhead —fo have a shave! And only a. few yards from his offiee was a. magazine storing over 10,000 pounds of T.’.‘-4'.'.".