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TWO HUNDRED DEATHS. CHINESE THEATRE FIRE. ESCAPE CUT OFF. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Times Cables.) Received March 19, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, March 18The Times Pekin correspondent says that more than 200 persons, including fourteen players, lost their lives when a fire destroyed a theatre in a village twenty miles south of Tientsin.
Aldst of the victims were trapped in the flimsy building, which burned furiously in a high wind. A number were drowned in a liver which was tlie only avenue of escape from the rear of the theatre.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 19 March 1936, Page 7
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