THE FRENCH NAVY.
$ MORE DEFECTIVE SHIPS. liy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, October 27. Router's 'Toulon correspondent reports that short circuits in connection with the electrical installations on the battleships Diderot and Justice, and a torpedo boat caused fires near tlie magazines. Disasters were averted by flooding tho magazines. Five stokers on tho battleship Justice havo been arrested because they became panic-stricken when (ho fire was discovered. They rushed on deck shouting: "All save themselves!"
POWDER-MAKERS QUARREL. Paris, October 27. JF. Louppe, ex-manager of t'he POll do Bois powder factory, states that M. Jlaissin, tho present manager, was formerly connected with a firm which supplied tho State with half a million kilogrammes of defectivo guncott'on made from old rags. There were German sleeping partners connected with the firm.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1272, 30 October 1911, Page 5
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126THE FRENCH NAVY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1272, 30 October 1911, Page 5
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