The Archive · 1923

FITTER'S STORY

Chou Foo-song, a fitter, one of the three Chinese wounded taken to the Yangtszepoo Social Centre—a mission schoo] and hospital—was able to give a vivid description of events in the turbine house after the explosion. He was hit, he stated, by a portion of the rotor casing, and witnessed the fatal wounding of Mr.

Although' suffering from two broken fingers, a long slash over the mouth and contusions in various parts of his body, he was able to tell a fairly connected story.

"T was up above," he said, "when the explosion occurred.

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