SHELLS KILL STOCK.
A report was received at Devizes on August 7 of the explosion of two shells amid a herd of cattle at Redhorn Hill, on Salisburv Plain. Farm workers hurriedly unhitched their ploughing teams and fled on hearing the explosion, and it was found Jater that two cows and two sheep had been killed outright. Seven others were badly injured and had to be slaughtered. Tho shells, which were believed to have been fired by Territorials on the Plain, fell outside the War Office barrier more than ia mile from the nearest target and near a track much used by the public for rambles. Splinters went through the wall of an unoccupied shepherd’s hut and tell near a hut in which was a soldier on look-out duty.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 10
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129SHELLS KILL STOCK. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 10
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