SCARE IN SYDNEY SUBURBS
ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE FROM CRUISER. WHILE BELT WAS BEING FIXED TO MACHINE-GUN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY. November 14. Residents of the harbour-front at Double Bay. Rose Bay and Waverley received a scare today when machinegun bullets fell on their homes and gardens and in the streets. Nobody is reported to have been injured. An explanation of the affair came from the naval authorities, who stated that the bullets were accidentally discharged from an outgoing cruiser while a belt was being fixed to a machinegun which fires from four barrels simultaneously. The gun-barrels were sharply elevated, and the majority of the bullets flew in a high arc.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1939, Page 5
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109SCARE IN SYDNEY SUBURBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1939, Page 5
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