ROCK OF DAMOCLES.
BLASTING OPERATIONS IN PROCRESS. INHABITANTS ALARMED. (Received Last Night, 9.50 o'clock.) PARIS, May 14. Tin' inhabitants are abandoning their homes at Tourney and Savoy, owing to tho approaching blasting o1 the so-called Rock of Damocles, which is poised 2700 feet above the town, and measuring 2600 cubic yards. Thirty workmen have been engaged for four months drilling dynamite holes. The authorities have voted £40,<100 if the homes are destroyed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 May 1913, Page 5
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72ROCK OF DAMOCLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 May 1913, Page 5
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