SHELLS COME ASHORE
WOMAN'S CLOSE CALL. HANGING OUT THE WASHING. While a Scotswoman was hanging out washing in her garden, a shell, apparently spent, rumbled past, only a few feci above her head, and embedded itself in the wall of a hotel close by. The woman, Mrs A. Whitehead. of Gullane, East Lothian, said: “It was the narrowest escape of my life. My daughter saw the shell coming and shouted a warning. I got such a shock that I could do nothing. I was rooted to the spot.” Three shells altogether passed over Gullane following, heavy gunfire at sea. Two shells are believed to have fallen on to golf courses. The other .made a deep hole in the wall of a bedroom in the Tower Hotel, shattering a window and several articles in the room.
Miss Margaret Boss and her niece, Miss Annie Ritchie, were spring-clean-ing in the hotel at the time. They were the only people in the building, which has been vacant for some time. They immediately communicated with the police, who made arrangements for the shell to be removed. No one was injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1940, Page 3
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