KINEMA DISASTER
HEART-RENDING SCENES » THEATRE BALCONY COLLAPSES SEVENTY PEOPLE KILLED MINOR TRAGEDY IN ADJACENT DISTRICT (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) HONGKONG, April 11. (Received April 11, at 7 p.m.) Over 70 men, -women, and children were killed and 200 injured, many critically, in the greatest kinema disaster in the history of Canton. Following a 50 per cdnt. reduction in the prices of the Capitol Theatre crowds flocked to the building yesterday, when suddenly during the performance there was an ominous crackling, followed by a terrific crash, and the entire balcony collapsed, hurling hundreds into the stalls below, where masses of concrete and tons of masonry and dust covered the screaming people. There were indescribable scenes, the injured fighting to gain the exits. The back section of the theatre is completely ruined. Almost at the same time a similar disaster occurred in the Mo Fan Theatre, in an adjacent district, a pqrtion of the building collapsing. Four are dead and over 60 injured.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22545, 12 April 1935, Page 9
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163KINEMA DISASTER Otago Daily Times, Issue 22545, 12 April 1935, Page 9
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