JAPANESE TRAGEDY
FIRE IN WHICH 26 PERSONS PERISHED CAUSED BY CIGARETTE STUB. LORRY DRIVER’S CONFESSION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) TOKIO, May 15. Starving after hiding for a week, Shichizo Matsuzawa, a lorry driver, confessed that he was responsible for the celluloid factory fire-on May 9 in which 26 persons perished. He admitted that when nearing the factory with a lorryload of celluloid he stubbed a cigarette against a window and the wind carried sparks to the celluloid, from which a 30-foot column of flame shot up.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1939, Page 5
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90JAPANESE TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1939, Page 5
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