Rome, Jan. 29, The news of the worst explosion in aly since the Great War, which yesterday took a toll of 100 dead: and 1,000 injured, was given in an ofelal communique issued yesterday after noon and. published unobtrusively on the inside pages of the evening newspapers, Not a line other than this appeared, The catastrophe occurred this morning at about 930, at the Segni munitions works, near Tivoli, 'Although the official _commiinique joke of "only a few dozen dead and Tnjured," the estimates given doctors and survivors said, that more than 10) are dead and' 1,000 Injured," Hundreds of the dead and [injured were still buried in the ruins Tate this afternoon, while rescuers dug frantically' to" extriente them before' dank, Signor Mfussolin! hurried from the wedding of his niece, Rosa Mussolini.
supervise the rescue operations, for which every ambulance and fire brigade within reach had been sume 'Following the disaster, cordons of troops and police: were' drawn round the scene and, for a radius of fave miles, none was allowed 10 po {or fear of further explosions,
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