TUSSARD'S FIRE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2861, 21 March 1925, Page 2

TUSSARD'S FIRE.

MR MASSEY DESTROYED. DAMAGE £2:5(1,000. London, March 10. The damage lo Madame Tussaud's is estimated at £250,000. Thousands of people visited flic ruins, and watched the salvagers carrying the wax effigies from the building and the pictures from the valuable Gainsborough collection house in t he building. Police Constable Robertson, the wax policeman who stood at the iiitianec, deceived many thousands of visitors into addressing him. He was one of the first to lie rescued to (lie evident delight of the real police outside, Imt out of the hundreds of famous elliges only a few models 1 notorious criminals in the chamber of horrors, including Peace, Crippen, Vaquier, Thompson, and By water, were saved.. MANY PREMIERS DISAPPEAR Tnssaud's lire was responsible I'oi unprecedented political cataclysms, destroying models in a. few minutes of Empire rulers and .Premiers, including Mr Stanley Bruce, Mr W. F. Massey, Mr Mackenzie King and General Smuts. Il lias not vet been decided whether Mr A\. M. Hughes has proved to he the modern Aliednogo, because-the model was removed when lie ceased lo he Crime Minister of Australia., and • ■as kept in a lumber room pending polilieal events. Mr John Tussnud states that negot a lions for the transfer 01. the business to a London syndicate had almost been completed when the lire occurred and deslroved the work of five or six generations.