EXPLOSION ON CRUISER
VESSEL' SHAKEN,
CAUSED BY LEAK OF PEfTKOL.
(Per Press Association.—Copyright.)
AUCKLAND, August 5
When officials and members of the French Club ‘Avere inspecting the cruiser Tourville yesterday, a kmd explosion shook the vessel.
Instead of a panic and an attempt to quit the cruiser, the people dashed to the upper deck, where hung a. heavy cloud of smoke. Petrol, dripping from a small engine upon the plates of another engine, under a platform where two airplanes are housed abaft the second funnel, had exploded through a large ventilator. The only persons perturbed AA r ere the group inspecting the airplanes Avhen the explosion occurred.
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Northern Advocate, 6 August 1929, Page 2
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