Shanghai, Oct. 24.
While engaged in repair" work from a stage suspended in a light-well at the third-floor level, three Chinese coolies fell to the ground early yesterday afternoon at _the Great Northern 'Telegraph Building, 34, Avenue Edward VII, with the result that one man was' killed and the others injured.
The accident occurred at about 230} pin, and was due to one of the ropes holding the stage breaking. Fire Brigade ambulance conveyed all {three workers to St, Luke's Hospital, where it was found that one. was dead, another seriously Injured with skull fracture, and the third only slightly hurt, having a sprain of the right ankle.
'A Chinese workman was injured not. seriously in a small _gasoline explosion at a workshop at Szechuer and Canton Roads. He suffered hume and was taken to hospital in a Fire Brigade ambulance, This accident occurred at 10 a.m,
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