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MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION WHILE BEING DISMANTLED AT BIRKENHEAD By Telegraph—Preso Association—Copyright, (Rec. September 11, 5.5 p.m.) London, September 10. Three engineers were killed and three injured through an explosion on the German submarine Deutschland, which crossed the Atlantic during the war, and is now being dismantled at Birkenhead. Tho men were stripping the motor room when, an explosion took place. The causa is (unknown. The men wore flung against the sides of the vessel. Volunteers pluckily descended into the smoking interior, and brought out the bodies. The fire was quickly extinguished.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 299, 12 September 1921, Page 5
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