FRENCH CRUISER’S VISIT
UPPER DECK EXPLOSION. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 5. When officials and members of the French Club were inspecting the cruiser Tourville this morning, a loud explosion shook the vessel. Instead of panics and attempts to quit the cruiser, the people dashed to the upper deck, where hung a heavy cloud of smoke. Petrol dripping from the small engine upon’the plates of another engine under the platform, where two airplanes are housed abaft the second funnel, had exploded, through a large ventilator. The only _ persons perturbed were a group iiispecting the airplanes, when the explosion oc curred.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 August 1929, Page 5
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