BERLIN EXPLOSION.
A CHEMICAL LABORATORY. DETONATORS MADE IN BASEMENT (Per Press Association— Copyright.) BERLIN, January 9. Police investigations of the explosion in the tenement house on January 5, by which 18 people were killed and seven are missing, revealed that the basement was used as a chemical laboratory for the manufacture of detonators. The presence of the explosives had been a strict secret, the owners fearing police interference, so they told the authorities that they were manufacturing cosmetics. When the debris was cleared away, nine barrels of high explosives were revealed in the rums, sufficient to wreck *he whole, wealthy residential district. Popular indignation in the neighbourhood is intense. Weingaertner, one l.artner, is being pros 32 ited. The other named Stammer, was blown to pieces by the explosion, which occurred while he was filling detonators with fulminate of mercury. Neither oi the partners was a trained ,-hemist, Weingaertner being a fruit canner before the war. He converted his factory during the war for the manufacture of Verey lights for aeroplanes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 77, 11 January 1928, Page 5
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