GUN ACCIDENT.
AN AUSTRIAN DISASTER. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, August 21. A Vienna message says that during firing trials at Pola an accident occurred to tho breoch of a 80} centimotro gun, and three officers were killed. Several officers and others ore reported to have been wounded, two seriously. Vice-Admiral Count Langus von Wellenburg, president of tho Naval Technical Committee, was terribly injured, and had to have his legs amputated.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16326, 23 August 1913, Page 11
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70GUN ACCIDENT. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16326, 23 August 1913, Page 11
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