HOME-MADE BOMBS
Home-made bombs used by the Is)-, girieers' Company of the GiSboriHi Borough Battalion of the Home Guardin a recent experiment at Awapuni proved most successful. Missiles filledwith blasting powder, and several gas-, pipe bombs containing high were employed..; Members of the units''' practised the use of explosives for demolition purposes,- and-.also the throwing of bombs at a mark, together with, the timing of fuse of the commercial type for use in improvised .bombs..-. ; The. • work was andVprovedvery interesting^iGhief"in-? terest- centred on the gas-pipe type pfcr bomb. .>f X-." r.-'V-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24627, 7 June 1941, Page 8
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91HOME-MADE BOMBS Otago Daily Times, Issue 24627, 7 June 1941, Page 8
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