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Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 929, 2 May 1918, Page 7

A New Zealander writes from Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the last mail: He says:. The awful explosion in December last when a Belgian relief ship ran into a munitions ship, destroyed practically the whole city. Large areas were swept by fire and hillsides had nothing more to show that they were once a thickly-populated part of the city than the foundations of scores upon scores of homes. Wreckage was everywhere. All the buildings rotmd the water-front were levelled. One brewery riaar the scene of the- expl<>sion was blown clean in half, so that you saw inside where there was a juni-bled-up collection of vats and bottles, tables, and timber and machinery— su awful mess.