TRAGIC FIRE IN AN ORPHANAGE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 129, 18 February 1918, Page 6

TRAGIC FIRE IN AN ORPHANAGE

CHILDREN LOSE- THEIR LIVES

HEROIC RESCUE WORK BY WOUNDED SOLDIERS

Montreal, February 15. It is feared that hundreds of lives were lost in a fire-at 'Grey Nunnery. Thirty-eight charred bodies cf children havo been recovered. Firemen rescued 200 wounded soldiere who were accommodated in the building. Later. The death-roll of the Grey Nunnery fire does not exceed seventy. The fire originated from a spark from an X-ray machine. • ■• - The returned soldiers in -Jhe building rescued numbers-; of children, carrying out two at a time.- A sergeant in the 13th Highlanders entered the building five iimes, and rescued.ten infants.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. "TANK BANK WEEK" IN BRITAIN GREAT MONEY-RAISING CAMPAIGN ORGANISED. '• London, February 15.' In .connection'with an effort to avoid another loan, a "Business Men's Tank Bank Week" is to be started on March 4.. Each town will be asked to raise enough money to purchase a definite munition of war, such as a Dreadnought, a cruiser, a destroyer, or an. aeroplane, according to the population. The people of Blyth have dready undertaken to raise £100,000 "to purchase a submarine." Mr. Bonar Law stated in ihe House of Commons that 352 millions had been raised by war bonds. He was understood to say that he had every reason to hope that success would obviate a fixed loan.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.