THE NEW FRENCH EXPLOSIVE.
A Paris cor respondent says :— General Bou^ancjer took down a large and diatineuiehed company to Chavignon, in the Aisne, to witness further experiments with the now deetiuctive bombshells. The spectators wore more than startled ; they seemed terrified at the results. A strongly fortitied earthwork wag knocked to pieces in fifty shots. The new explosive substance, the composition of which is kept a secret, has buen given the name of melinite.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 3
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74THE NEW FRENCH EXPLOSIVE. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 3
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