SPRAY OF BULLETS
SYDNEY HARBOUR FRONT MISHAP ABOARD CRUISER (Received November 14, 11.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 14 on the harbour front at Double Bay, Rose Bay and Waverley received a scare to-day when machinegun bullets fell on their homes, gardens and streets. Nobody was reported to have been injured. The explanation of the affair came from the naval authorities, who stated that the bullet:? were accidentally discharged from an outgoing cruiser while a belt was being fixed to a machine-gun which fires from four barrels simultaneously. Fortunately the gun barrels were sharply elevated and the majority of the bullets flow in a high arc.
SYDNEY, Nov. 14
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23504, 15 November 1939, Page 12
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