THE CANAL BLOCK.
STEAMER AND DYNAMITE TO BE BLOWN CP. BE telagraph, Prow A*’n, Copyright Received 10.5 p.m., Sept. 25Suez, Sept. 25. It is proposed to blow up tho sunken Bteamer Chatham with its cargo of 70 tons of dynamite in the Suez Canal. The dynamite will be exploded by electricity from a distnooo of two miles. Tho explosion will take place on Wednesday, after the Peninsular steomor China passes. It is feared that the debris will blook the Canal for several days.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1568, 26 September 1905, Page 3
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83THE CANAL BLOCK. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1568, 26 September 1905, Page 3
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