DANGER IN A PIANO. -
NOTE THAT WOULD HAVE STRUCK DEATH. Sir Arthtr Yapp, speaking at a Y.M.C.A. meeting in London, told an interesting story of misplaced German ingenuity. "When our troops entered Peronne," he said, " a west country detachment was told off to a certain house for quarters. In one of the rooms Mas a Herman piano, the sight of which elated a young soldier, who approached it with the intention of playing it. Ho was warned by his officer not to do so until it had been •cammed. ''The piano," explained Sir Arthur wag connected to a bomb, which the sinking- n» a wrt?in note would have ex-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 2 (Supplement)
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109DANGER IN A PIANO. – New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 2 (Supplement)
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