FACED DEATH
TROOPS SAVE EXPLOSION IN MUNITIONS FIRE POWDER TAKEN FROM FLAMES DELHI, Friday. Gallant efforts by British troops averted an explosion of 25,0001 b of gunpowder and a large quantity of ammunition during a big fire in a Munitions factory at Kirkee, near Poona. * A sentry gave the alarm in the early morning. Two companies of riflemen, with artillerymen and members of tho Tank Corps, fought the flames for two hours with a small engine. They removed barrels of gunpowder from the blazing main Magazine. A special congratulatory order has been issued by the brigade area commander at Poona. The International cable news appearm S In this Issue Is published by arrange®ent with the Australian Press Association and the Sun’*-“Herald' *New a Service. Limited “V special arrangement. Reuters world service, in addition to other special sources of information, Is used in the compilation of the oversea Intellipence published in this issue and all J*J&hts therein in Australia and New Zealand are reserved. Such of the cable news on this page Js so headed has appeared in The times" and is cabled to Australia and New Zealand by special permission. It should ba understood that the '•pinions *fe not those of "The Times- unless •xpressly stated to be so.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 9
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209FACED DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 9
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