EXHIBITION ON FIRE.
AT GHENT.
BRITISH COURT'S NARROW 5 ESCAPE.
By T«lejrai>h—Preea Aasoolo/tlon-Coiirriffht
(I?ec. Mny 20. 11.15 p.m.)
Brussels, May 2G. A firo at tho Ghent Exhibition raged for two hours, and an area of ono hundred and fifty square yards was destroyed, including the tinder ccction of the English Courts.
Tho fire brigado have extinguished the outbreak, and they were assisted in tho task by the troops.
Tho English section was slightly affected, and tho Fino Arts Department narrowly cscaped destruction.
Visitors, remembering tho disaster on tho occasion of the firo at tho Brussels International Exhibition in 1910, showed great excitement,' but there was no panic.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 1760, 27 May 1913, Page 5
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107EXHIBITION ON FIRE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 1760, 27 May 1913, Page 5
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