THE FRENCH NAVY.
DESTROYING DEFECTIVE POWDER. ACTS OF .SABOTAGE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 23, 10 p.m. Paris, October 23. Although the Liberte Commission has not reported the fact, the authorities at Toulon were ordered to throw into the sea seventy-one tons of B powder, valued at £21,000. Several acts of sabotage occurred aboard the warship Alirabeau, including the crippling of the mechanism for flooding the magazine.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 24 October 1911, Page 5
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66THE FRENCH NAVY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 24 October 1911, Page 5
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