A GERMAN'S WAR WAISTCOAT. A manufacturer in Hamburg, who had been tremendously busy from the beginning of the war putting on the market nil sorts of possible and impossible contrivances for the use of the active defenders of the Fatherland, lately sent to the proper military experts in Berlin a. model of a bullet-proof waistcoat, out of which he hoped to make a fortune. The War Office's Department of Tests returned the model with the following communication:— "Your alleged bullet-proof waistcoat was submitted fo proof under musketry lire. We recommend that you use your best efforts to place a supply of these waistcoats abroad in one or more of the countries at war with. Germany."
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1915, Page 9 (Supplement)
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115Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1915, Page 9 (Supplement)
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