HYDERABAD CINEMA FIRE
WOMAN’S TIMELY ACTION MANY LIVES SAVED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 17th June, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, 16th June. The “Daily Herald’s” Madras correspondent says that a Hyderabad official’s wife, by improvising a fire escape, saved many lives at the cinema fire. She tore off a gaily coloured sari and tied it to the balcony railing, enabling forty persons, including herself, to slide down to the auditorium, from where they escaped.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 17 June 1936, Page 2
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74HYDERABAD CINEMA FIRE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 17 June 1936, Page 2
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