CELLULOID FACTORY FIRE
LORRY-DRIVER'S CONEESSION
[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT,]
TOKIO, May 15
Starving, after being weeks in hiding. Shichizo Matsuzawa. a lorrydriver. confessed that he was responsible for the celluloid factory fire on May 9, in which 26 persons perished. He admitted that, when nearing the factory with a. lorry load of celluloid, he stubbed- a, cigarette against the window. The wind carried the sparks to the celluloid, from which a 30-foot column of flame shot up.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1939, Page 2
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