DISASTER AVERTED
BY SOLDIERS IN INDIA.
[United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]]
DEIJHI, April 4
Gallant efforts -by British troops averted an explosion of twenty-eight tnousand pounds of gun powder and a large quantity of ammunition during a big blaze in a munitions factory at Kirkes, near Poona. A sentry gave the alarm, early* in the morning, and the two companies of the Royal Munster Rifles, also artillerymen and members of a tank corps, rought the flames for two hours with a small engine, removing barrels of gun powder from the blazing main magazine. A special congratulatory order has been issued by the Poona Brigade Area Commander.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1930, Page 5
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