Jet-Propelled Deat[?]
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Rabaul Fatalities
Jet-Propelled Deat[?] In Old Torpedo
TWO natives and a European, i salvage workers, in Rabaul, Nf Guinea, died in November fro injuries received from blast fro an old Japanese war-time torpedi They were Gerald Austen Farre 50, married, of Rabaul; Anano,, Papuah v ‘ native of Abau; and Ss also a Papuan, of Abau. Five oth people were injured.
The torpedo was one of sevei in the salvage depot of Brown a;j Gouldie, in Malaguna Road, Rabat Farrell was using an electric dr on the torpedo and penetrated tl compressed air tank which, in se vice, operates the motor of tt torpedo. The pressure was such tt; its escape acted like a bomb. died almost immediately from he: injuries; the two others later : hospital.