Some good stories of the quarter-deck v and lowsr-deck are told in a Grand Fleet chaplain’s notebook, Vjust published. Here is on©: “One of pur destroyers was in action, and in the course of the fight ; was struck by a shell which penetrated * into one of her bunkers and there exploded. Fragments-of the bulkhead and a litter of coal came faring out into the stokehold; and shot out with theijk in a cloud of black dust came also a stoker, who had at-the. time been trimming coal f inside He picked himself up slowly, <i gave himself a shake, and then, turning ? 'to the chief stoker; eaid: ‘I don’t see I that I’m doing, much, good in there; the bloomin coal’s trimmin’ itself.* *’ „ Babies, growing children, and invalids ; who sufitr from stjpmaoh troubles will . find relief in Sharland’s Fluid lit;.", nesia. Largs bottle one skilling.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15130, 26 January 1917, Page 5
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145Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15130, 26 January 1917, Page 5
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