GRAVE DANGER
FROM GAS CYLINDER.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
LONDON, October 7.
For three days the people of Fleetwood lived on'the brink of annihilation. A large cydinder bobbing in the waves at the beach mystified, the population of 30,000, till a port officer called an ; army official, who recognised that it contained war-time poison gas sufficient to exterminate the populace. It is assumed that the cylinder escaped from a torpedoed steamer.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1932, Page 5
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