KEPT SECRET FOUR YEARS
WORLD'S WORST MINING DISASTER 1.549 KILLED IN MANCHURIAN COLLIERY (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) TOKIO. April 16. Allied headquarters reported that the world's worst milling disaster occurred when an underground explosion killed 1,549 Chinese and Koreans in the Honkeiko colliery, Manchuria, vn April 26, 1942. Several hundred deaths were needless because a mine official refused to turn on the ventilating fans for fear of spreading the fire. Tho Japanese military kept the disaster a secret, even from the Japanese Government.
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Evening Star, Issue 25770, 17 April 1946, Page 7
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82KEPT SECRET FOUR YEARS Evening Star, Issue 25770, 17 April 1946, Page 7
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