THE JENA DISASTER.
The Cause of the Explosion.
Paris, March 21
In the Chamber of Deputies, the Minister for Marine, M. Gaston Thomson, announced that the Senate had accepted the proposal to appoint a Parliamentary Committee to inquire into the circumstances of the explosion on the. battleship Jena. The Minister declared that the. committee and officers were inclined to attribute the disaster to short-circuited electric wires, and not to the decomposition of ammunition. He added that the ammunition was overhauled in September last. M. Bos, Reporter for the French Naval Estimates, blames the Ordnance Department for disregarding warnings, extending over five years, respecting the decomposition of the powder of the battleship Jena. . M. Bos declares that other vessels have not changed their powder for thirteen years.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 23 March 1907, Page 3
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126THE JENA DISASTER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 23 March 1907, Page 3
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