Fire Destroys Theatre
TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST VICTIMS TRAPPED IN BUILDING LONDON, March 18. The ‘‘Times’ ” Peking correspondent states that more than 200 persons, including fourteen players, lost their lives when a -re destroyed the theatre in a village twenty miles south of Tients.' w Most of the victims were trapped in the flimsy building which burned furiously in a high wind. A number were drowned in a river which was the only avenue of escape from the rear of the theatre.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 67, 20 March 1936, Page 8
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82Fire Destroys Theatre Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 67, 20 March 1936, Page 8
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