JUGOSLAV DISASTER
EXPLOSION IN FORTRESS FIVE THOUSAND CASUALTIES (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, June 10. According to the Budapest correspondent of the British United Press, 5000 people were killed or injured in Semendna as the result of 90 ammunition wagons blowing up in the fortress. GERMAN CASUALTIES EIGHT HUNDRED SOLDIERS .sil .iiv/i'' *l»i-~>'}- k*>~< ■•* ■ ■■'< - '-i (Rec. 1.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 9.: It is now reported that 800 German soldiers were among the 5000 killed or injured in the explosion at Semendria. Jugoslavian irregulars are believed to have " touched off " 90 trucks of ammunition when they discovered that it fitted German guns. The industrial section of the town was completely flattened. Eye-witnesses say that there was a blinding flash and then the town seemed to disintegrate in a rush of air, and the site of the dump became a huge hole in the ground. The Germans are censoring news of the tragedy. The town'formerly had 12,000 inhabitants and was the centre of a rolling stock factory.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24630, 11 June 1941, Page 5
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