TRAGEDY IN BELGIUM
FIVE CHILDREN SUFFOCATED ESCAPE OF GAS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) BRUSSELS. 6th December. On the eve of St. Nicholas Day, which celebrated like Christmas in parts of Belgium. Madame Thery, living with her uncle, put fc> "bed five chijdren, whose dges ranged from seven months to six years. She lit a gas heater in order to warm the room and returned later to fill a Christmas stocking. She found the heater extinguished and the room filled with gas, all the children being suffcated. She was admitted to hospital distraught, after vain efforts to revive them.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 8 December 1930, Page 7
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