Nanking, Mar. 30.
The outbreak of fire in a fruit store caused the terrific explosion last Friday night at a temple compound where 135 cases of munitions were stored, according to a telegram received here by Mr. Vu Vu dent of the Control Yuan, from Mr. Tal Huai-sheng, Control Commission er for Kansu, Ninghsia and Chiaghai provinces.
Mr, Tai reported that five dead bodies had already been recovered. Nineteen persons were known to have been injured while over 300 houses were shaken to the ground—Central News,
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