THE EXPLOSION ON THE JENA.
BRAVERY OP SLUICE WORKERS.
Received March 14, 8.48 a.m
PARIS, March 13
Further particulars in connection with the explosion on the French' battleship Jena, in the dry dock at Toulon, show that a bursting shell killed Lieut. Roux while he was trying to open the sluice of the dock, but his six companions continued to work amid a bail of projectiles. A fragm. Nt cut off an arm of Lieutenant Renaud, who was aboard the battleship Bouvet, in the next dock. M. Thomson, Minister of Marine, attributes the explosion to a short circuit, which was possibly due to an explosion of compressed air breaking some electric wires. The Kaiser has sent his condolence with the French nation in the calamitv. The British Minister for Foreign Affairs (Sir E. Gray) has telegraphed sympathy on behalf of Britain. Among the Jena's explosives were 3,880 melinite shells. Received March 14, 11.55 p.m. PARIS, March 14. Experts are amazed at the completeness of the destruction caused by the fire on the Jena. Ten guns are ruined, and only the bow pair are unharmed. Admiral Benthelot considers that the fall of a shell or a torpedo or any violent shock would be sufficient to explode the powder.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8381, 15 March 1907, Page 5
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207THE EXPLOSION ON THE JENA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8381, 15 March 1907, Page 5
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