Three British soldiers were injured shortly before midnight last night when the car which they were driving at high speed in an easterly direction in Bubbling Well Road swerved against the curb on the south side of the road ricocheted against the pedestrian island in front of the old Embassy Theatre. to be smashed shapeless and turned over. The road was littered with broken glass and splinters of wood.
One of the soldiers suffered from concussion and the others were badly cut and bruised. They were taken immediately to the British Military Hospital now located at the International Club. All three were reported to be Privates, It is understood that the injured soldiers were Loyals from the Great Western Road area. Earlier in the evening it was reported that there were four absentes from the ranks of the Loyals including one corporal and three privates, At an early hour this morning. the ownership of the car was still unestablished. It was a little maroon-coloured Morris-Major.
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