MINE EXPLODES.
RELIC OF WARTIME. HUNDREDS OF GRAVES DESTROYED. HUGE CRATER IN THIEPVAL. (BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATES—COFYBIGHT.) (AtJSTHALIAS ASD H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received March Bth, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, March 8. Hundreds of graves were destroyed in the British War Cemetery at Thiepval, the scene of terrific (fighting on July Ist, 191 C. A party of labourers tried to root up a wire, not knowing it was connected with a mine laid in war-time. The explosion, which caused a terrific crater, was heard twenty miles away. Ten thousand soldiers, including many Australians and New Zealanders, were buried at Thiepval.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18635, 9 March 1926, Page 9
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