REAL DANCER.
FRANCE'S. COASTAL TOWNS,
SHELLS LEFT FUO.M 15ATTL1
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association PARIS, July 15.
The newspaper L'Oeuvre alleges that a large 1 section of the I'Yoncli coast, including Ktuplcs ami other seaside resorts, is in danger of being wiped out by thousands of shells, aeronl torpedoes, and hand grenades from the British Somme fronts, protruding from the, soil so that a blow from a child's spade will suffice to explode them. Shrimpers are not allowed to operate in the regian. The L'Oeuvre states that contractors promised to render the explosives harmless, but instead they buried the shells a few inches below the. surface.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17088, 17 July 1926, Page 14
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106REAL DANCER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17088, 17 July 1926, Page 14
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