Burn Your Bombs!
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No Help From Army Bomb-Disposals
LAE, Sept. 26.
TERRITORIANS who are unfortunate enough to have large abandoned dumps of Army explosives on their property can apparently expect little or no assistance in ridding themselves of the menace. Some owners have been kept off parts of their property for twelve months now, owing to unexploded bombs, etc.
The Lae branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League was recently informed by the Army authorities that they should advise property owners to burn the bombs —that is, set fire to the grass and other secondary growths that now cover them.
Most of the bombs and ammunition would then explode, they were informed.
If certain nieces proved stubborn and refused to go off, then an appeal may be made to the Army bomb-disposal units, who mght consider doing the job— although this appears unlikely, as prac tically all Army personnel (with the exception of War Graves) has been with drawn from the Territory.
Mrs. H. J. Cresswell left Brisbane by the SS “Alagna” for Rabaul in September, to join her husband on their plantation.