HOW IT STARTED
CELLULOID FACTORY EIRE LORRY DRIVER CONFESSES Received May 16, 6.15 p.m. TOKIO, May 15. Starving after being in hiding for a week, Schichizo Matsuzawa, a lorrydriver, confessed that, he was responsible for the fire at the Japan Celluloid Company’s factory on May 9, in which 26 perished. Matsuzawa admitted that when he was approaching the factory with a lorry load of celluloid he stubbed his cigarette against the window of the lorry and the wind carried sparks to the celluloid, from Xvhich a 30ft column of flame shot up.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 114, 17 May 1939, Page 7
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92HOW IT STARTED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 114, 17 May 1939, Page 7
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