BOMBING AMMUNITION DUMPS
I have often heard people express wonder that we do not "blow up the enemy's ammunition dumps," so I asked an officer in the A.O.D. how it is that we so rarely hear of dumps being bombed, says a correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette."
"They're bombed often enough," _c said, "but it is very rarely that the bomb explodes any of the shells. I've seen a heavy bomb fall plumb in the middle of a dump, and beyond scattering the shells and injuring a good many nothing has happened. "The explanation," he continued, "is that shells in dumps are innocent not only of fuses hut also of detonators. These are fitted to the shells by the gunners themselves. It is the only safe way, and a shell without a detonator is a very harmless thing.*-
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 148, 22 June 1918, Page 15
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