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EXPLOSION KILLS SEVEN MEN ON CLYDE. MISSILE DROPPED IN RIVER LAST MARCH. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, September 16. A bomb, which had lain on the bed of the River Clyde since a mass German air raid on the Clydeside in March, exploded today and killed seven men. Four tugs were moving a ship from a berth in the' Clyde when the bomb exploded beneath them. Five members of the crew of one tug, and a foreman and an electrician on the dockside, were killed and men handling the ship's mooring ropes were blown into the water. Others were knocked over on the wharf. The blast shook the waterfront buildings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 6
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116DELAYED BOMB Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 6
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