GRENADES EXPLODE.
SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED.
ATHENS MUNITIONS DEPOT. ATHENS. Feb. 19. Several men were killed and others seri- 1 ously injured at a munitions depot at Liossia, a suburb of Athens, when workmen and soldiers dropped a crate of hand grenades, which they were unloading from a lorry. A fire which followed destroyed a number of buildings. Every person who was near t]ie lorry was killed and 200,000 grenades were burned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20495, 21 February 1930, Page 13
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