SHELL BREAKS UP A PARTY.
FARMHOUSE BLOWN TO BITS. Mr. W. R. Coleman, junr., forwards a tragic story from somewhere m France, where he is at present doing staff .work at Divisional Headquarters. One 'night, miles behind the front line of trenches, a party of soldiers, billeted m a farmhouse, were enjoying a gramaphone concert. In the middle of it a 9-inch German shell arrived, blew the farmhouse to bits, . killed) a few of the happy little party, and wounded the rest. After the hideous uproar of the explosion and wreck had died away, the gramaphone was heard still playing — the only unbroken thing m the whole .of that scene of horror! "I'll never forr get that tune," writes Coleman ; "it was a waltz song from one of the latest musical comedies." — Auckland Herald.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14050, 21 July 1916, Page 3
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