Like a Bomb
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O — 1 - PETR0L DRUM EXPL0SI0N 1 Three Brothers Ainong j The Iiijured j BOY FLUNG THROUGH AIR. | !
CEeceived This Day, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Jan . 3. "It looked as tbough somebody "had j flung a bomb." said Mr Tbomas Chal- i lins, describing tbe scene wben lie rushecl up to lielp the boys killed and injured by tbe explosion of the petrol drum. Eigbt arms were stretcbed out lying in a cirele about tlio fhiining , drum. Two were dead and parts oi | one's face bad been blown awav. Anotbcr was lying 25 yards distant. ; An eyewitness said that lio saw j something like a big cloll flung in to j the air, whicli camc down with a tliud. j It was tbe boy lying apart from the | others. I Tlie boys' ages were between five j and ten . The injured include tliree brothers. Further cletails appear on page 5.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 284, 4 January 1930, Page 7
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157Like a Bomb Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 284, 4 January 1930, Page 7
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