The Archive · 1938

OXYGEN EXPLOSION

ROCKS JARROW

Scenes of Destruction: Few Cases of Injury smout ro ru "yens."

London, Feb. 19

Booking is now proceeding apace for Wednesday's big Charity Concert at the Grand Theatre in Aid of Des hwe War Zone Children, the 8: seats in particular being greatly in demand. It ts learnt that a number of parties are being arranged with early dinner to give an to get to the show at the rise of the curtain.

Glacing over the dr which, despite its proportions, may still bey added to, one realizes very scun that here is a veritable Show of Shows. There are operatic numbers by Mesdames Zorich, Sitnikova and Madame Mary Waung and Messrs Shushlin and Markov; a Persian Dance by the Gonina Sisters: Classical and Modern Dances by Miss Bobinina and the Kniazeft duo; an Argentine Tango that includes all these talented performer:

Other important items are conce: ed numbers by the Russian Male Voice Choir and the Band of 4th Marines and a vich Rome, Feb, 20, In connection with the doubts cast by Moscow on the identity of Budenko, former Soviet Chai d'Affaires in Bucharest who fled Italy, the paper "Messagero" was a position to publish a facsimile the card of identification issued to the Soviet diplomat by the Rumanian Foreign Ministry on January 14. The per adds that in view of this cement it will from now on be impossible for Moscow to deny the facts. A

Yesterday evening M. Budenko broadcast an account of his ex periences in Italian and on the previous evening in French and Rumanian, In a statement to foreign journalists later on he stressed his conviction that nobody who knew his voice could possibly doubt his identity.

It reliably stated that M. Budenko, when leaving Bucharest, with him a sumper of docu-highly compromising; ture, deposite: these with An explosi at the British [Oxygen Cor! works at Jarrow, hurtled cylinder fragments over e town breaking wind ws over a rge area. and the authorities ordered many families to leave home:

R n explosion was followed for fifteen minutes by smaller reports audible eight miles away. Sever ex-Servicemen suffering from shell shock were removed to hospital.

tre brigade extinguished the factory outbreak, while panic-stricken residents ran into the streets, taking shelter in the church.

One cylinder travelled 1,000 fect to the river, and another crashed, red into a dockside roof. were no serious i G. Riskin. These are the c butions of the foreign community In addition are two from leading Chinese artists re equally outstanding. Decidedly novel from a Western point of Prayer for Peace Classical Orchest The League of under hose awp being arranged, intend to use their Shanghai Hom Children, towards the individual members subscribing most gen-instruct event of M. Budenko's disappear: The name of has not been revealed in order to prevent possible attempts by the G.P.U. to in possession of the documents.

Th apers here recall tha imilar case occurred m nine years og in Paris when the Cour Seller of the

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