HEROIC FIREWOMEN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4899, 19 June 1918, Page 7

HEROIC FIREWOMEN.

ST LED BIG FACTORY FROM A CARTRIDGE BLAZE.

When replying on the - Munitions debate- in the House of Commons, Mr. Kellaway told a pleasing story of the loyalty and bravery of the women who make shells. There was a fire at a London munition factory, he said. Within four minutes of the alarm twenty women who had been trained in fire drill brought out the 'hose on the fire, which was in a shed frilled with live cartridges and with cartridge paper stored there for the previous Russian Government. '

They stuck to their posts until some of the men present appealed to them to throw down the hose because the danger was so great. But they kept the fire under control until the London Fire Brigade arrived, and it was the testimony of the Brigade that but for the women’s efforts the whole of the great munition factory would have been burned to the ground. Mr. Ivellawiay also mentioned that there was no period since the Ministry of Munitions was established when the general Labour situation was sounder than it was now. Strikes were never fewer, and the work people never worked more loyally.