Husband Also Injured During Accident to Japanese Mrs, Sumi Shinoda, 28. a Japanese, was lying in a critieat condition at the Hine Hospital, North Haining Road, on Feb. 5, suffering from severe burns on the face, chest and both arms sustained In an explosion of portable gasoline cocker on the: previous night.
Her husband, Inataro Shinoda, 38, was also being' treated for burns on the face and both arms at. the Japanese Naval Landing Party Hospital.
The explosion. according to. the 'sBhanghal Wiopa" occurred at shout 7pm, February 4 when tre "nine da was ghting the cooker in the kitchen of her home fon Wuhsien 'Terrace, Paoan Road. 'The gasoline spilled on Mrs. Shinoda, whose clothes ignited. "Agonized screams brought to her assistance Mr, Shinoda, who securing a blanket, managed to' extinguish the flames.
The cooker, of Swedish manufacture, had been used by Mrs. Shinoda for a long time, the paper added.
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