BIG COMPENSATION
BOMBAY DOCKS EXPLOSION Rec. 2 p.m. BOMBAY, May 30. The Government of India is paying £19,000,000 sterling compensation for civilian losses caused when an ammunition ship blew up at Bombay docks on April 14. Insurance companies are expected to pay a further £12,250,000. The explosion caused a series of fires in the dock area, killed 336 people, and injured 1000. !
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1944, Page 6
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