MUNITIONS EXPLOSION.
CAUSES HUxNDRED CASUALTIES.
BOMBS BENEATH CORPSES,
(Received 8 a,m f ) ROME, Aug. 26.
A terrific explosion of munitions occurred in a depot at Pellegrino. It rooted up trees a mile distant.
Rescue parties were ordered not to remove the dead bodies, soldiers and civilians having left bpmbs underneath tp" pause additional casualties.
Over QX\e hundred were kUl e 4 qr injured.—A. and N.Z,
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Northern Advocate, 28 August 1919, Page 5
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