FOURTEEN KILLED
Tragic Paris Explosion CAGOULARDS’ BOMBS Paris, January 26. AL the suburb of Villejuif, where a public analyst had been examining bombs and other explosives- seized from the Cagoulards, there was a tragic unhappy accident. A magistrate had ordered 200 cases of grenades to be photographed. After the photographers had completed their task a detachment of soldiers began moving the cases, one of which fell and exploded, blowing up the rest. The photographers were killed and the dead also include two chemists and ten soldiers. Nearby trees were plastered with scraps of clothing and other gruesome evidence of the tragedy. Fourteen persons were killed. These included M. Schmitz, head of the explosives department of the municipal laboratory, an army chemical expert whose name is so far unknown, Lieutenant Huisse, six soldiers, two lorrydrivers, two photographers and a mobile guard. Five women and two men were injured. Many wooden shacks nearby, in which poor families live, were wrecked. Two army lorries were blown to pieces and windows were broken within a radius of.a mile.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 11
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174FOURTEEN KILLED Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 11
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