THE TRAGEDY ON THE SUPERB
ATTRIBUTED TO DISEASED POTATOES. Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. Received July .4, 10.0 a.m. LONDON. July 3. Owing to preparations for the naval review 150 sacks of potatoes had to bo stored in the Superb’s hold. Some of these were clisea.scd, and the doctors attribute the deaths of the three sailors to suffocation by carbon dioxide, caused by decaying organic matter.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13418, 4 July 1911, Page 5
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63THE TRAGEDY ON THE SUPERB Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13418, 4 July 1911, Page 5
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