IGNORANT WORKERS
£2,000,000 WORTH OP NAPHTHA DESTROYED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, October 11. A sensational discovery of naphtha was made at Cuban, in Russia, near the terminus of the Tuapse-Armavir Railway, which is being built with British capital. After the discovery the ignorance of the workmen resulted in a fire, which took 200 men ten days to extinguish. Two million pounds' worth of naphtha was destroyed.
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Evening Star, Issue 14187, 12 October 1909, Page 6
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67IGNORANT WORKERS Evening Star, Issue 14187, 12 October 1909, Page 6
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