TRAGEDY IN CANADA
TWO CADETS DROWNED. DURING MOCK ATTACK. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) OTTAWA, July 2. The Defence Minister, Mr Ralston, announced the drowning of two cadets at Brockville officers’ training centre in a demonstration, attack involving swimming a canal with full equipment. Thirty men dived in to cross the canal, but six failed to rise. A dozen civilians dived in and dragged four out, but the bodies of two were not recovered for nearly fifteen minutes. Meanwhile the remaining soldiers negotiated the canal and “captured” a police station on the other side. Mr Ralston and hundreds of spectators who crowded the banks witnessed the tragedy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1942, Page 4
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105TRAGEDY IN CANADA Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1942, Page 4
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