EXPLOSION IN BRITISH WAR FACTORY
SERIOUS LOSS OP LIFE. London, .Tuly 2. The Press Bureau Teports: "A serious explosion ocmirred on Monday night in a national shell-filling factory in the Midlands. It is feared that between CO and 70 people perished. The number of injured is not known. A considerable part of the productive capacity of tho factory was saved, and work will bo resumed in a few days. The women workers behaved splendidly, and urged that if they were allowed to return to work there would bo no appreciable diminution of the output.—Au9.-N.21. Cable Assn.-Router. MUNITIONS EXPLOSION IN AMERICA. (Rcc. July 4, 0.55 a.m.) New York, July 3. A munitions plant at Syracuse exploded. Ono hundred pebplo were killed.— Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 245, 4 July 1918, Page 5
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