A DANGER SIGNAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1917, Page 6

A DANGER SIGNAL.

Hoarseness in ft child tliat is subject to croup is a sure sign of an approaching attack. Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes hoarse and the attack may be warded off. Sold everywhere. An instance of what might be described as an intervention of Providence, says a northern paper, was related in Masterton last week by a man who was recently employed as'a trimmer on a deepsea steamer. Not long ago the man — who, by the way, is unfit for military service, owing to having undergone an operation to his side—was engaged on a steamer carrying wheat from America to Italy. Several of the ships in this trade had been blown up by infernal machines, and great precautions were taken to prevent these machines being placed on board. On the particular ship under notice several detectives kept vigil during the loading opeations, and it was thought when the vessel sailed that she was tree from anything in the way of explosives. Shortly "after leaving the American port the ship struck a reef, and an inrush of water compelled the captain to put into port. When the wiieat was removed from the hold a case over four feet longwas diseyvered. In this case were live cells, containing high explosives anil connected with clockwork, which would have caused an explosion but for the fact that' the water had poured into the hold and stopped the action of the deadly contrivance. How the machine was put on board is a mystery, but the crew realisjed the extremely narrow escape they had from being blown to eternity (

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