SHELL EXPLODES.
FIVE BOYS KILLED. Received April 18. 9.5 a.m. WARSAW, April 17. A party of schoolboys who were returning from a village church near Lemberg—they had just made their first Communion —found a three-inch shell in a disused war trench. They tried to unscrew the nose cap, when the shell exploded. Five of the boys were killed, and three seriously injured.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 118, 20 April 1931, Page 2
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62SHELL EXPLODES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 118, 20 April 1931, Page 2
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