MILLION TO ONE.
CHANCE CAME OFF.
. LONDON, October 12. A partridge dashed .through the engine window of the Leeds express as it was travelling at 70 m.p.h., causing glass to enter the driver's eye. Though he was in. intense pain, the driver plnekily continued to his destination, and was then" taken to hospital, whore the glass wits, removed. All official declared that the ac was unparalleled. Trains hit r hu ° a &l ,d of birde in the course of * 7*' ' o f there was only a millionth: ch**c trouble following- .
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 246, 17 October 1929, Page 7
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