BOMB EXPLOSION
DURING A DEMONSTRATION. REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF SOLDIERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 1. A squad of soldiers at a Canterbury camp had a remarkable escape this week when a live bomb fell back into * the barrel of a grenade mortar and exploded there. The mortar was wrecked but the men escaped. They were practising for a demonstration to be given at Lancaster Park next Sunday, but the grenade mortar exhibition will not now be included on the programme. As with a cup discharger, the grenade is thrown from the mortar by the explosion of a cartridge. On this occasion the cartridge was apparently faulty in some way and the grenade was not thrown far out of the barrel of the mortar. It went far enough to release the lever of the grenade and set the firing mechanism in action. The bomb then fell back into the barrel of the mortar and exploded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1943, Page 2
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