MINE DISASTER
500 CHINESE AND JAP LIVES LOST. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Nov. 1. Delayed despatches report the deaths •of five Hundred Chinese miners and thirteen Japanese overseers at Anshau mines Manchuria. There was an enormous explosion on 24th. October, •which was heard miles away. The cause of the explosion is uncertain, in T.iew of the fact that they are iron mines, hut Chinese reports : attribute it to spontaneous combustion and excessive use of dynamite, The mine owners, a Japanese firm, immediately organised rescue parties, but succeeded in rescuing only four Chinese and one Japanese, all of whom were seriously injured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1929, Page 5
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104MINE DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1929, Page 5
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