HOW IT WAS DONE.
An officer who recently returned fo New Zealand told the Masl-erfon Age representative that, the explosive used in tlio Messines milling operations was seven times stronger than dynamite. The Canadians and AusIrnlians- had constructed the tunnel which was seventy feet- deep, and extended :is Cai- as the Gorman second line. Tho debris from the mine was ! overed no with scrub so that tbe enemy aeroplanes could not see it.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3277, 27 June 1917, Page 2
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