The Archive · 1940

Fire Exposes Hazard

Shanghai, Aug. 20.

Three persons lost their lives, one man of 36 and one of 25, and one woman of 22, a5 a result of burns received in a fire at 235 Yenping Road on August 14, The three were engaged in the manufacture of Anger nail polish, presumably from serap celluloid with amyl acetate as a solvent, The premises being used for the process consisted of a single downstairs back room of a school. Operation had been going on for one

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