BOMB TRAGEDY

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 214, 4 June 1924, Page 8

BOMB TRAGEDY

FIVE MEN KILLED DURING REVIEW

RESULT OF MISHAP TO AEROPLANE

(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Copyright. Cape Town, June 2. While a review of commandos at Kuruman was progressing a bomb fell from a military aeroplane, killing five and wounding thirty-two, mostly slightly. A search was made for tee pilot, Lieutenant Joubert, but the crowd were informed that he had been removed. An eye-witness states that when Joubert lauded he walked round and round his machine like a madman, exclaiming, “Oh, God, that this should happen to me.” A court of inquiry took evidence at the house of to wounded lady, who made a dramatic appeal to the president for mercy for Joubert, who,she said, was not to blame for the fatalities. Extraordinary interest is being taken in the tragedy. It is stated that when the explosion occurred certain people ran about the camp crying out that it was no accident, but a scheme of the Government. A meeting was held that night, at which a threatening attitude was adopted.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.