Rescue workers last night stopped pumping fresh air into the shaft of a local mine last night, indicating that they had abandoned all hope for 27 workers trapped below the surface by a dust explosion.
Three men, two of whom were"injured, were rescued before hope of rescuing the other victims was abandoned.
The explosion closed the tunnel leading to the mine at a point 180 feet below the surface, A wall of stone and dirt closed the passageway, through which rescue workers were attempting to clear a path yesterday.—Wnhited Press, Chungking, July 16.
Mr. Liang Lung has been appointed Chinese Minister to Rumania—
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