Two men were killed and four injured by an explosion at the naval ordnance depot at Pillau, near Konigsberg. The men were loading high explosives for a coastal battery when fire broke out and reached the explosives before it could be extinguished. One building of the depot was destroyed.
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Southland Times, Issue 23535, 15 June 1938, Page 12
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