GAS WORKS FIRE
VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS WAR MEMORIES REVIVED LONDON, Feb. 20 When an oxygen works at Jarrow, Durham, caught fir;e yesterday, houses for miles around were damaged by flying metal. For two hours violent explosions occurred every few minutes, and grjat pieces of metal showered the countryside. An eye-witness who went through )he Great War said he had nuver experienced anything like it. A number of ex-soldiers in hospital had n recurrence! of shell-shock, but theni were no casualties.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22976, 2 March 1938, Page 13
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