The pluck, or love of romance in some women (says a London writer) is truly remarkable. ' I have just been told of a girl who was engager] to the bo'sun of a. Dutch freighter. He wanted her to be married in Holland, whore his people lived, and, in order to get her there, stowed, her away in the locker of his ship. The next time lie saw her she was in a lifeboat. A submarine iuul fired u shell through the locker in which the girl was sleeping, and she. came out quite calmly, to the astonishment of the -,' vow and her suilorman. who in the UlO-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 8 November 1917, Page 5
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107Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 8 November 1917, Page 5
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