AMMUNITION EXPLODES
ELEVEN SOLDIERS INJURED Rec: 9 p.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 21. ' When men were engaged in dumping obsolete ammunition from a tanklanding ship outside the Heads, an explosion occurred which resulted in 11 soldiers, including a lieutenant, being injured. The victims, some of whom were seriously hurt, were rushed to the repatriation hospital by two ambulances which were waiting when the ship returned to Sydney. The tank-landing ship has been in the harbour for over a week, during which it has been loaded from lighters. She left the harbour this morning for a spot 18 miles off the coast and beyond the continental shelf where the explosives were to be dropped.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26625, 22 November 1947, Page 7
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111AMMUNITION EXPLODES Otago Daily Times, Issue 26625, 22 November 1947, Page 7
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