CIGARETTE SPARKS
CAUSE OF FACTORY FIRE LORRY DRIVER'S CONFESSION TOKIO, May 15. Starving after a week's hiding, Shichizo Matsuzawa, a lorry driver, confessed that he was responsible for the celluloid factory fire on May 9, in which 26 perished. He admitted that when nearin? the factory with a lorry load of celluloid, he'stubbed a cigarette against the window, and the wind carried the sparks to the celluloid, from which a 30-foot column of flame shot up.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 9
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76CIGARETTE SPARKS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 9
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