14 KILLED IN PARIS BOMB EXPLOSION
(Received 1.5 p.m.) f LONDON, January 26.
A message from Paris states that 14 were killed in an explosion at the State Pyrotechnical Laboratory of Paris, in the suburb of Zille Juis, where the public analyst had been examining bombs and other explosives seized from the Cagoulard conspirators.
The explosion was an unhappy accident. A magistrate had ordered 200 cases of grenades to be photographed. After the photographers had completed their task, a detachment of soldiers began moving the cases, one of which fell and exploded, blowing up the rest.
The photographers were killed, while the dead also include two chemists and 10 soldiers. The nearby trees were plastered with scraps of clothing and other gruesome evidence of the tragedy.
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Northern Advocate, 27 January 1938, Page 7
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