REMARKABLE ACCIDENT
EXPLOSION OF CARTRIDGES. TWO GUNNERS INJURED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. / LONDON, August 20. (Received August 21, at 5.5 p.m.) As ;i howitzer was being fired during manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain a high wind deflected the gun-blast to the cartridges in a neighbouring waggon, causing an explosion. Two gunners were badly burned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14918, 22 August 1910, Page 5
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52REMARKABLE ACCIDENT Otago Daily Times, Issue 14918, 22 August 1910, Page 5
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