Tientsin, Dec. 30.
Five persons were killed, and $100,000 of equipment was destroyed in an explosion in Peipiao Mines it JJehol on December 25, according to belated messages reaching here from shan. to-day.
It is reported that among the dead two were Japanese mine engineers and three were labourers. The cause of the explosion is as yet unknown.
'The Peipizo Mines have been in the hands of the Japanese since the occupation of Jehol by the Japanese /military. After the change of management, all high positions in the mines were' filled by Japanese—Central News.
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