GERMAN INSTRUMENTS
Found On Australian Beaches SYDNEY. January 4. The military authorities announced that two tins containing scientific depth-sounding instruments of German origin have been washed up at Wollongong and Stanwell Park beaches on the south coast. The discoverer of one of the tins is in hospital. After finding the tin lie attempted to open it witli an axe. 'With the first blow the instruments exploded, showering him with fragments of metal.
A warning lias been issued to ba tilers to treat instruments will) care should they happen to find others.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 86, 5 January 1940, Page 10
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