GERMAN NEWS.
[Australian <fc X.Z. Cable Association.]
AN UNUSUAL ACCIDENT. BERLIN, February 21. Five were killed and seven taken to the hospital owing to a most unusual gas poisoning.
Thirteen passengers were returning y from Biehrich on the Rhine in a motor v boat and were all in the cabin, lbe boat when passing a patch of shallowwater jammed the exhaust pipe and the petrol fumes spread most rapidlv in the cabin where all the windows were shut. One man saved his life by smashing a window.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1927, Page 2
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87GERMAN NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1927, Page 2
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