MAGAZINE EXPLODES
TIfH I! ILL if CO X LEA OH ATI OX. LI LTV OASLALTIIfiL (Received !1 a.mj. TOKH), June S.‘ A magazine of tin* Hamamatsu Aviation Corps exploded last Highland started a serious fire which involved the hangars. Fifteen aeroplanes are reported to have been destroyed. The gasolene stores are still burning. Liftv people wore killed or seriously injured. The explosion is attributed to a workman dropping a bomb d,tiring its removal from the store. The less is 'unofficially estimated at f.iofhnno.
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Northern Advocate, 9 June 1933, Page 7
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