TAKING TOLL.
Wartime Shells Still Claim
Many Lives
ANOTHER TRAGEDY. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June 12, 10.25 a.m.) BELGRADE, June 11. A farm labourer who had just been re-employed after months of unemployment was hammering the blade of a scythe on an old piece of iron, which proved to be a German six-inch shell, it exploded and killed the labourer, his wife and two daughters. Nineteen were killed in Jugoslavia in 1934 by the explosion of war shells, and there have been several thousand deaths since 1918.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20329, 12 June 1934, Page 1
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