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Show (NIGHT AND DAY IN LONDON Tollers Work Along Just the Samo Through All Hours, Making Munitions Mu-nitions of War. The war seems to hnve done away with tho difference between night nnd day.. The period of rest nnd the'pe-rlod the'pe-rlod of exertion seem to hnve merged themselves into one long period. I look out on tho river nt two or three 1 In the morning nnd It Is as busy ns tho river nt midday, writes Grace Boyn-ton Boyn-ton Monks in tho Outlook. Barges aro being towed up nnd down and goods being shipped from the whnrves. Hugo vans rattle along the road beneath my window and the streets nre as full of people at night as they are In tho daytime. day-time. At Woolwich nrscnnl there aro two 12-hour shifts and as much work. Is done by night as by day. The other evening I motored from the Mnnorwny gate of the arsenal to tho entrance of tho dnnger buildings nnd rotijrncdjust ns tho night shift was going In to work. Tho chauffeur had to go at a snail's pnee, blowing his horn continually. continu-ally. The broad roads which run between be-tween the buildings were crowded i from side to side, swnrming with workers, work-ers, principally women. They had to crowd together nt thfl side of tho road to make room for tho car to pass. Theso women wero going in on n 12-hour 12-hour night shift some whoso work would bo purely mechanical, others who would hnvo difficult operations to perform nnd many who worked in actual act-ual danger. Those who were going to tho buildings build-ings from which I had Just come know thnt unless they took the utmost caro thero was danger of an explosion, nnd hnd n night nnd a succession of nights and days to look forward to when they would bo breathing In yellow powder In splto of veils and all tho precautions precau-tions the government can provide I knW them by their yellow hair and faces. Occasionally a head In the vast mob of faces nodded to mo or a hand waved, for I have many friend among them. |