London, July 9.
It was revealed to-day that Commander Long, a departmental official, was one of the five persons killed the explosion which occurred yesterday in the eruciform plant of the research department of Woolwich. Arsenal.
'Two of the victims were chemists andthe other two labourers. The explosion occurred during the carrying out of an experiment, 'Commander Long recently retired from the Navy after 30 years' service, and had been employed at the }Woolwich Arsenal for the last thir~ "teen years—Reuter-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.