The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Bourgogne Républicaine, Dijon, France, page 4, on June 24, 1954.
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Nevers (from our special corresp.), -- Glass disease is more and more talked about in the Nivernais, and two other cases have occurred in Saint-Pierre-le-Moutiers.
While a motorist from Loir-et-Cher had left his car parked in the small square, opposite the Beau-Laboureur hotel, a loud bang made all the windows in the area vibrate; hotel guests rushed over and noticed with the owner of the car that the windshield had fallen to very fine pieces, producing the sound of rain on the roofs.
In Saint-Pierre-le-Moutiers one was very surprised by this case of a windshield and one was to learn a few moments later that at a storehouse of beer, lemonade and natural water, twelve empty bottles were found in a locker had also exploded, although they were not exposed to the sun. These twelve bottles were literally pulverized and the owner of the establishment could only pick up a few fragments no larger than a pinhead.
Glass disease is expanding to such an extent that we do not know where it will end.
