TRAGEDY IN PARIS
THE CASUALTIES LORRIES BLOWN TO PIECES WIDESPREAD DAMAGE PARIS, January 26 Those killed in the laboratory ex plosion included M. Schmitz, who was head of the explosives department at the municipal laboratory, an unnamed army chemical expert, Lieutenant Huisse, six soldiers, two lorry drivers, two photographers, and one mobile guard. The injured included five women and two men. Many wooden shacks nearby, in which poor families lived, were wrecked. Two army lorries were blown to pieces, and windows were broken within a radius of a mile.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20409, 28 January 1938, Page 7
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89TRAGEDY IN PARIS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20409, 28 January 1938, Page 7
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