LEGACY OF THE WAR
LIVE SHELLS ON FRENCH COAST. SEASIDE RESORTS MENACED. CPreaa Aoeociatlor —By Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, July 15. (Received July 16, at 9 p.m.) The newspaper L'Oeuvre alleges that a large section of the French coast, including Etaples and other seaside resorts, is in danger of being wiped out bv the explosion of hundreds of thousands of shells, aerial torpedoes, and hand grenades from the British Somme front. These are protruding from the soil so that a blow from a child’s spade is sufficient to explode them. Shrimpers are not allowed to operate in the region. L’Oeuvre states that the contractors promised to render the explosives harmless. Instead they buried the shells a few inches below the surface.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19844, 17 July 1926, Page 11
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