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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 19, 1937.

600 CHILDREN KILLED

Horrifying School Boiler Explosion Disaster

ACID THROWN AT

M. DEGRELLE

Brussels, To-day.

Two missiles containing acid were thrown at the leader of the Belgian Rexist Party, M. Leon Degrelle, yesterday...

M. Degrelle was slightly injured-Trans-Ocean.

APPALLING

PICTURE OF TEXAS CATASTROPHE

TYLER (TEXAS), TO-DAY.

OVER SIX HUNDRED CHILDREN ARE

MID-EUROPE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED WHEN A

POLITICS

SCHUSCHNIGG NOW IN BUDAPEST

ITALY'S POSITION

Budapest, To-day.

The Austrian Federal Chan- cellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, arrived here by plane on an offi-

visit yesterday.

SCHOOL BUILDING FIFTEEN MILES FROM HERE WAS ALMOST DESTROYED BY A BOIL- ER EXPLOSION YESTERDAY.

THE TRAGEDY, ONE OF THE MOST HORRI- BLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, HAS SHOCKED THE WHOLE NATION.

THE

DRAMATIC TELEPHONIC NOTIFICATION OF DISASTER WAS GIVEN BY THE AGITATED SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT, WHO STATED THAT OVER 600

OF HIS CHARGES WERE BELIEVED TO HAVE

MET THEIR DEATH

TWO HOURS AFTER THE EXPLOSION, HOWEVER, RES- Immediately after his arrival CUE PARTIES OF OIL WORKERS HAD ONLY RECOVERED Dr. Schuschnigg began political THE BODIES OF 135 CHILDREN AND TEN TEACHERS FROM parleys with the Hungarian Pre- THE SHATTERED DEBRIS OF THE SCHOOL-HOUSE. mier, Dr. Kalman Daranyi, and the Foreign Minister, Dr. Kolo- dan de Kanya.

Informed quarters declare that no definite programme has been prepared for the negotiations, since the visit is due to the initiative of the Austrian Chancellor, who pressed a wish to ascertain the official Hungarian attitude with regard to the changed internation-

al situation.

ex-

Points which led to the visit in- clude the apparent shifting of Italian interests to the Mediter- ranean, Italy's definite opposition

"Children are dying all round," rag dolls with their clothes blown was the pathetic description of the off. ghastly scene given by employees

Eye-witnesses say there was

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of an oil company near the spot, low rumble and then a loud report. many of them fathers of the chil- dren who perished in the disaster. Burst Of Flame

Fire fighters equipment, doctors and nurses are being rushed to the scene from surrounding towns.

It is believed that about 1,500 children were in the school at the

time.

Gas Accumulation

The building seemed to rise in the air and next came a burst of fames and the building fell in, ap- parently quickly extinguishing the flames at the same time.

It now appears that the school was divided into two buildings, of which the High School was almost

The explosion, attributed to ac-entirely destroyed, as the walls to the plan for restoration of the cumulation of gas in the boiler were pushed out by the blast and Hapsburgs in Austria and the im-room, blew up the floor of the hall, the whole roof of the two-storeyed pending conclusion of a part of which apparently collapsed im-collapsed. amity between Italy and Yugo mediately. The whole end of the The other building, from which Slavia.

school anditorium was torn out. the pupils had already been dis- Most of the children were crush missed, was only slightly damaged. ed underneath piles of masonry and workers were rafters, and rescue

..on in their frenzied efforts spurred by the agonising shrieks and moans of the trapped kiddies.

It is also declared that Hungary will continue to maintain close friendly relations with Germany and Italy and to co-operate with the signatories of the Rome Pact. --Trans-Ocean...

INDIAN DISPUTE

Three Alleged To Have

Attacked One

Terrific Blast

A few of the children appear to have been burned, while bricks of as far as

the building were thrown

a quarter of a mile away by the explosion, which was heard miles around.

The victims of the disasters

Babu Singh, Rambia Singh and Atma Singh were this morning all children of oil workers in charged before Mr. W. Schofield East Texas oilfield. with assaulting Guard Karan

...

Singh, on Tuesday.

Defendants pleaded not guilty

and the

April 6.

was adjourned to

ker said the

Only 100 Alive

details

for

Chancellor And Swollen Prices

London, To-day.

STOP PRESS

TEL. 20022 or 33993

Branch Of National Economic Council

The National Econome Council is to establish a Branch in Canton, and it is understood that Mr. T. V. Song, Chairman- the Council, has already appointed Mr Liang Hancho, the

general of the Legislative take charge of the Bra Our Own Correspo

han, to

From

B.B.C. EMPIRE PROGRAMME

London, To-day.

B.B.C. announces that owing

The Chancellor of Exchequer was asked in the Commons whether he to modifications to plant at the are was aware that owing to the de Empire Station at Daventry, Trans- bat: 1100 the mands of the armament programme mission 2 will, from March 22,

and the manipulations of specula-start at 12.55 instead tors, the prices fron, steel and G.M.Tas normally.

The full service will be restored non-ferrous metals were still rising.

at the earliest

ment, position was probably towards the end

but that -British Wireless

He replied that:

As the earher confusion is being being carefully watche

the the questioner attached an exagger- ated importance to the demands of has the armaments program of Gov

MR. WANG

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