AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
A FACTORY GUTTED. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Sydney Oct. 31. Fire destroyed Barely and Co.'s factory at Leichhardt. The damage was estimated at £IO,OOO. ALLEGED DESTROYER OF SHIP'S Sydney, Oct. 31 Harold Batten, a former employee of the Union Company, has been committed for trial. The police produced a number of extraordinary letters referring to the sinking of ships and the falsifying of discharges. [At the hearing of the charge against Batten in the Magistrate's Court, on the 17th, of having forged a seaman's discharge certificate, the police stated that a quantity of gelignite, dynamite, and detonator fuses, and correspondence relating to explosions on shipß, were found -in his possession.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1917, Page 2
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111AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1917, Page 2
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