HUNDRED KILLED IN CHINESE HOLOCAUST .
WOMAN TRAPPED IN FLAMES. SHANGHAI, March 11.—Chinese hospitals here me filled with seriously wounded as the result of a fire which swept the four-storey silk factory in the centre of the city here to-day. It is feared that ICO people have been killed.
With windows securely fastened against them, fifty womep. were trapped by the flames in the second storey of the structure. (JVer fifty bodies have been recovered.
A number of Russian refugees living on the roof of the building were killed. A score of charred bodies were discovered huddled at the foot of a halfburned ladder at the rear.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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