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HEAVY CASUALTIES IN EXPLOSION OF MINES
TRIESTE. Monday.
-Several mines, which exploded at Vcrgarola, near Pola, resulted in 43 .persons being killed and 57 injured,
including two British soldiers.
..The; mines, which had been swept frpffi the water, were piled up on a beach awaiting disposal.
?Tfhe cause of the explosion has not
b«en determined.