SHAVING UNDER FIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 19, 22 January 1916, Page 17

SHAVING UNDER FIRE.

BUSINESS AS USUAL AT GQRTZ.

dent d P , K- aDd aSterS ' mlte « « eorrespoaItalians i ndeed , ta this town, fire day and-night, the flower trade Wished steadily Barbers , too> shaTed on steady hand amid the thunder O f the artillery, Austrian and- Italian, and here and there one might buy rings, made from the aluminium fuses of Italian shells and inlaid with copper, displayed as "Souvenirs of Gorizia." So many shells fell into th t w that their feartulnovelty wore away' and people who suspended .business lost caste with their neighbours. Yet almost every street already bore its marks of -warfare in the shape of iroken. -windows, cracked walls and shell holes. There was one tower almost completely girdled with, shrapnel pits. ■Certain streets were barricaded as teing too dangerous for traffic. In such streets one saw window frames broken away, walls crumbled, iron shutters full of holes, as though their substance had been cardboard through which fingers had been thrnst- But nobody quickened his pace on account of these spectacles. One street which had suffered pretty badly in this way was promptly renamed " Shrapnel Street " by the inhabitants. People would scramble between the wooden barriers and the house walls and take a walk along its forbidden ways.