SCARE IN SYDNEY
SHOWER OF MACHINE-GUN
BULLETS
(Received November 15, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 14.
Residents of the harbour-front at Double Bay, Rose Bay, and Waverley received a scare today when machinegun bullets fell on their homes and gardens and in the streets. Nobody is reported to havd been injured.
An explanation of the affair came from the naval authorities, who stated that the bullets were accidentally discharged from an outgoing cruiser while a belt was being fixed to a machinegun which fires from four barrels simultaneously. The gun-barrels were sharply elevated, and most of the bullets flew in a high arc.
Withjn ten seconds a complete belt of 200 rounds was discharged, but it is believed that only about 30 bullets fell in the suburbs. Many pierced ceilings and fell into the rooms of hquses. Police stations received telephone inquiries from residents who feared that an air raid was in progress. Fifty police were sent to the suburbs affected to reassure the householders.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 9
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164SCARE IN SYDNEY Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 9
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