FLOATING MINE EXPLODES
AMERICAN DESTROYER NAREOWLY ESCAPES. Press Ajsociation—By Telegraph—Copyright. CANTON, July 19. (Received July 20, at 9.55 p.m.) A floating mine dropped from a passing sampan in the harbour here and evidently intended to blow up the Chinese cruiser with Wing-fun and Dr Sun Yafc-sen aboard, exploded prematurely 50 feet from the United States destroyer Tracy. The destroyer was shaken but not damaged.— A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18612, 21 July 1922, Page 6
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