CO129-627-4 Argyle Street explosion- correspondence on claims and enquiries 1-6-1946 - 31-7-1951 — Page 58

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Doeber, 195, the solice were withāram but that the military were not working on 31st Dece:ber, or 1st January and the Police posted guarda on 31st December on the understanding that they would be taken off when the military remund work,

The Tab-Inspector (cos desoogod, visited th

2nd 1006ry 16, about the rilitary at work gons are trollon The try art st the end of

the ty and costoc no gunt they notify the polloa the axlnsion pocurred at Bold pon, and facts were assn aoning try the south of the 楽しいL

The Cort, sftør bearing the evidence, cosider d that the

y have been cused by oort ar took pressing or falling on ex losir:z, int rfere od by Looters, or booly trap

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they thought interference og looters the most prolable,

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artharon 13t the 100sl clado Mucer saputocod 140310 10 a latier to the tuire riour Colonial „egretarial on the ground that E. Covern ent do not resume resp. neibility for damage resulting accidentally or intenti nelly intentionally tranaota or II quotocor

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threuthority for his sotton.

This led to sorres ondence with the Colmiol (ceretāriet anÖ on 17th June, 1746, a long letter wen rucsived fret the Colonial

led argunnnntly into consign of the acove quoteu ar Office letter and had seen the proceedings of the Court of Inquiry elad had proos.daf to argue the case on the teras of that letter. The Colonial secretariat rejected the Court finding that the explosion was probably due to interfer noo by looters and thought there was strong evid/nos that the ex loalɔn waa uuused by a fail of rook, sad that there was prove dereliɑtion of Guty on the part of Flight ieutenant Dulce.

/Captain