THREE TIMES BLOWN UP.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4817, 14 March 1918, Page 2

THREE TIMES BLOWN UP.

MUNITION GIUL’S ADVEN TUIIES Ha nnah Spash, a happy-faced girl of 20, is one of the girl workers to whom the King and Queen spoke during a visit to a munition factory in the London area. “The King asked me whether I liked the dangerous work better than any other,” she said later, “and I replied, to the King’s amusement, ‘Well, I have been blown up three times. Your Majesty, so I have got used to it.’ And so I have. The first time I was very lucky. A pot of a certain chemical dropped in my shed and the explosion blew an arm off the girl standing next me, but I escaped almost unhurt. “The second time the explosion blow up the table at which I was working, and it Was wonderful that 1 did not have both legs blown.off instead of having only a knee and foot dislocated and my face badly scarred. You can see the scars now. The third time was when I was working in a gunpowder shed. The explosion blew the shod to pieces and killed two girls. I was flung out on to a field, and only recovered consciousness while being taken home'. “All the accidents happened in a year, and I had to be away three months after two of them, but I was always longing to get back to the work. I am still on explosivesWhy do I like it? Well, lam very, fond of a brother who is lighting m France, and I like it because it helps him and the others who are there-