'A number of people had a narrow escape from death shortly Before 11 am. on Saturday, when the lid of vulcanizer in the Cheng Dah rubber shoes factory, 88% Thorburn Read, was blown off in an expl Thrown across a room diagonally. the lid foreed its way through a thick brick wall and landed ap-Droximately 150 ft. away from the damaged boller casing.
The factory has three vulcanizers which, according to an oficial of the firm, are inspected by an engineer, employed at the factory, ance In two weeks regularly. He stated that the rouse of the explosion possibly was the fact that the screws at the Bottom of the id were not properly tight ened, No loss was sustained beyond the damaged wall and a vulcanizer.
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