The French freighter, its holds packed with highly explosive munitions _ 2, 300 tons of picric acid, 200 tons of TNT, 10 tons of gun cotton, and 35 tons of high octane gasoline _ was forging deeper through the narrows to join a huge Atlantic convoy assembling in Bedford Basin.
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A notice appearing in the " Sydney Morning Herald " in March 1897 calling for tenders for the erection of a " Magazine, Laboratory, Gun Cotton Store and other buildings " at the " Military Reserve at Newington " is in the name of the " New South Wales Military Forces ".
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Setting the explosive charges began with the leading man placing a slab of gun cotton in the middle of a rail and then, missing a rail, to repeat his action, while the leading man of the second team put down a slab of gun cotton in the middle of the rail on his side which paired with the rail missed by the other team.
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Setting the explosive charges began with the leading man placing a slab of gun cotton in the middle of a rail and then, missing a rail, to repeat his action, while the leading man of the second team put down a slab of gun cotton in the middle of the rail on his side which paired with the rail missed by the other team.
