NERVE STORM
PANIC IN A FACTORY MANY GIRLS COLLAPSE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, November 22. During extreme heat to-day an outbreak of mass hysteria occurred among 80 factory girls in a city underwear establishment. The girls were working quietly when suddenly one let go a shrill scream and within a minute most of the others were fainting, screaming, or rushing about in terror. The situation was made worse when a man wearing an improvised mask and searching for a dead rat in the ceiling poked his head through a manhole preparatory to descending. Ambulance workers arrived and applied first aid to at least 20 girls who collapsed in various parts of the room. The proprietor of the factory described the affair as the strangest in his experience. The girls took panic unaccountably. He closed the factory For three hours and ordered all the girls into the fresh air.
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Evening Star, Issue 22194, 23 November 1935, Page 27
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149NERVE STORM Evening Star, Issue 22194, 23 November 1935, Page 27
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