liding Blown to Fragments During Operation of Drying Gunpowder Four Men Killed: Five Injured FA. tremendotis explosion, heard all over the French Concession and for approximately five li round the Lunghua Arsenal took place" on 'Thursday morning at about 8.30 o'clock when powder, through un-Known causes, burst' into flames and caused the death of four Nationalist soldiers working the powder factory, injuries to five others, demolition of one! building and damages to ten others. The four men, were blown, to bits. "A search after the flames: had been got under control about 10 o'clock revealed only charred and dismembered pieces of their bodies, three of which were identified, while the fourth was apparently complete-annihilated by the gruesome] thoroughness of the explosion.
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