GRANDSTAND COLLAPSES AT FOOTBALL MATCH.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) s MILAN, June 15. One hundred and twenty spectators were injured, twenty seriously, when a grandstand collapsed during a football match at which 20,000 were present. The accident occurred when scores of aeroplanes returning from massed aerial manoeuvres passed overhead. The spectators jumped up and waved their hands in greeting to the ’planes. The result was that the stand collapsed owing to the undue pressure.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19098, 17 June 1930, Page 3
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