A FALSE ALARM.
STAMPEDE IN A CINEMA. PICKPOCKETS’ RUSE, BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 21, 1.30 p.m. ATHENS, Oct. 20. . Twenty-five persons were killed and eighteen injured—mostly children—through a stampede following a false fire alarm at a cinema. It is suspected that the alarm was a ruse by a gang , of pickpockets who hoped to benefit by the confusion.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 October 1924, Page 7
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59A FALSE ALARM. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 October 1924, Page 7
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