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Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I

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Torpedo boats in the basin Riga. all other news about that not are true A party of 12 men dispersed by CFA. -- all either killed or wounded. Excavating at La Petite Douve. yet another machine-gun emplacement in parapet at Petite Douve. French mortar bomb found, markings on fuze "Zunder Mittlerer Werf-Mine" _ Zm. Wm 1914 (1914 Pattern). Burst of shell feeble, heard merely being blown sideways + contents burning. After 12 hrs. in the ground shell still hot + ground around fused Base of shell has copper driving band with six grooves Filling seems a mixture of Phos. + Calcium Carbide