THE BRUSSELS FIRE.
OFFICIAL STATIOIKNT. RIUUSIf SECTIOX TO 810 JUOOPEXED. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] u [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received This Day, 0.10 a.m.) BRUSSELS, August 19. The President and Executive oi the Exhibition, commenting on the "reatly exaggerated statements made m regard to the damage and started bv lo('al newspapers, state that all traces of the (ire will lie removed in a fortnight, and that the Belgian and British sections will be re-opened. There are widespread complaints ol tlio carelessness and dishonesty ol w.w of the watchmen, arid inefficiency of precautions against lire. Yielding to public opinion the I'lxeciiiive is forming a corps of GOO liremm willi new engines.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 August 1910, Page 3
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108THE BRUSSELS FIRE. Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 August 1910, Page 3
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