Terrible Accident One Chinese student was killed and another badly injured in an explosion the French Concession, on August 14, which was caused, It 15 believed, by the accidental mixing of two powerful chemicals.
At about 6 pin,, an explosion from the room they were in suddenly roekthe house, and smoke began to pour from the windows. French firemen, who were on the scene a few minutes later, broke into the room, and found it a shambles, with the two young men lying injured on the floor, near a table, They were badly burned and unconscious, "The furniture in the room was wrecked and on fire, while the celling and Toot of the house were slightly damaged.
The two students were taken in an ambulance to. the St. Marie Hospital, one of them dying on the way. The other is in a critical condl-
Aiter an examination of the premises, it was believed that the two students were engaged in some form of study which called for the uso of a number of different acids and chemicals. It is thought that @ bottle of sulphuric acid accidentally knocked off the table. Tt smashed on the floor, close to some. powerful chemical similar to chlorate of potash, which exploded, owing to the small: Ress of the room, with the force bomb,
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