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ON POWDER SHIP. EXPLOSION OCCURS. TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE KILLED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 10.30 a.m. to-day. SHANGHAI, July 3. Two hundred Cliinese men, women, and children were killed or injured in the vicinity of Nanking when a native junk, carrying explosives, blew up through the crew’s carelessness. The junk was moored to a- railway wharf, and the explosion wrecked, dozens of buildings adjoining. Three Chinese passengers on a British river boat, which was proceeding trom Shanghai to Hankow, were wounded when the vessel was attacked by soldiers on the river band.
A protest lodged with Chiang Kaishek elicited the reply that he was not responsible for the troops affiliated with the Hankow Government. The attack is the first for several weeks.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 4 July 1927, Page 5
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