FOURTEEN DEAD.
TOLL OF EXPLOSION. PARIS, Jan. 26. Fourteen persons were killed in the explosion of bombs and other munitions in a suburb. These included M. Schmitz, head of the explosives department of the municipal laboratory, an army chemical expert whose name is so far unknown, Lieutenant Huisse, six soldiers, two lorry-drivers, two photographers, and a mobile guard. Five women and two men were injured. Many wooden shacks nearby, , in which poor families live, were wrecked. Two army lorries were blown to pieces and windows were broken within a radius of a mile.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 51, 28 January 1938, Page 7
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93FOURTEEN DEAD. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 51, 28 January 1938, Page 7
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