ARMAMENTS AND MEN.
H.M.S. PYRAMUS AT SYDNEY
Sydney, Oct. 27
The warship Pyranius has returned to Colombo with her newly coinmissioned crew.
A CUTTER SWAMPED
SEVEN BLUEJACKETS DROWNED.
(Received 28, 9.30 a.m.) Beilin, Oct. 27.
Through an accident during the launching of the cruiser Muenelicn’s boat at Kiel, seven bluejackets were drowned.*
FIRES ON FRENCH WARSHIPS
(Received 28, 8.30 a.m.) London, Oct. 27
Reuter’s Toulon correspondent reports that short circuits in the electrical installations of the warship Diderot. Justice, and a torpedo boat caused fires near the magazines. The disasters were averted by flooding the magazines.
PANIC-STRICKEN STOKERS
(Received 28, 9.30 a.m.) Paris, Oct. 27.
Five stokers on the battleship Justice were arrested because they became panic-stricken by a shortcircuit. They rushed on deck shouting “All save yourselves.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 265, 28 October 1911, Page 5
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