VILLEJUIF EXPLOSION
FOURTEEN KILLED
WOODEN SHACKS WRECKEf
(Received January 27, 2.15 p.m.) 1 PARIS, January 26. Fourteen persons were killed in the? explosion at Villejuif. ; .
Those killed were M. Schmitz, head of the explosives department- of the municipal / laboratory, an unnamed army chemical expert, Lieutenant Huisse, six soldiers, two • lorry-drivers, two photographers, and a mobile guard, and five women and two men were'injured. . -" ' : .
Many wooden shacks nearby in whicit poor families live were, wrecked. Two army lorries were blown to pieces and windows were broken within ■>& radim .of a; mile: ' . :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 10
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90VILLEJUIF EXPLOSION Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 10
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