Careless Handling of Cigarette Blamed Peiping, Mar. 29, Seventy persons were missing and 134 persons dead as a result of an explosion in a coal mine at Tsingtsing in western Hopeh province on March 22, according to dispatches reaching here tonight.
More than 2,000 miners were in the mine at the time of the explosion, but a majority of them were removed safely. Injured, however, were 159 miners, 37 of whom were seriously hurt.
The disaster was attributed to the careless handling of a cigarette—Domei.
London, Mar. 29.
The Selenga and the Vladimir Mayakovsky, two Soviet ships suspected of carrying cargo destined for germany and which were intercepted by British warships, have been handed over to French authorities, the Ministry of Economic Warfare an-"vunced today.
The Selenga was halted by British warships off Formosa on January 10 and taken to Hongkong and was released yesterday. The Vladimir Mayakovsky, carrying American copper, was seized by British warships on March 15 off Japan.
Meanwhile, the Russian Embassy merely said that a French warship intercepted the Selenga on Thursday and forced the Russian crew to leave the ship when the captain of the vessel refused to take his ship to Indo-China, Nothing was said by the Embassy regarding the fact that the Selenga was handed over by the British to the French.
The Selenga was released by British authorities at, Hongkong yesterday after having been detained since January 10 when it was intercepted by British warships while en route to Vladivostok from Manila. The freighter's cargo of wolfram was not touched by the British authorities.—United Press.
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