DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.
FATAL GUN PRACTICE. Press Aissociation-By Telegraph-Copyright TOKIO, September 17. A shell exploded on the- Japanese warship. Kashima during target- practice, oS Ivure. Four men were killed and M injured, several, fatally. Renter states that the .catastrophe was due to an attempt to remove an unexploded 12-inch shel ! i fiom the gun. The. majority of . the bystanders were fearfully mutilated, and the Kashima. wafi badly . damaged. The include a lieutenant, two cadets, and a staff officer. . . ' THE DEAT9 ROLL.Received 11 p.m., September 18th. TOKIO, September 18.
i Five of the officers and 22 men were killed on "the Kashima, and ; two officers and six men severely injured. The hull of the versel is undamaged.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13395, 19 September 1907, Page 5
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