Tokio, September 17. is officially announced that an explosion, owing to burning gunpowder, took place on board the battleship Kashima in one of the ten-inch guns during target practice yesterday afternoon in Hiro-
The H.-C. herald and S. C. & C. Gazette. shima Bay. Five officers, including, the Lieut.-Commander and a lieutenant, and twenty-two men were killed, while two officers und sixteen men were wounded.
One reliable version states that the cause was the usual one of the explosion of " shell which had been loaded into a gun that was with fire ile. which had not been sponged out.—Our Own Correspondent.
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