STAMBOUL FIRE.
P TWO SQUARE MILES DEVASI TATED. FLAMES STILL SPREADING. (Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, July 25. Fires wore started at several points in the city of Stainboul, and two square miles havo been devastated. | Five thousand houses havo been destroyed. . The damage is estimated at £2,000,000. ! I The residences of the Ministers of j War and Finance escaped, but in the 1 General Staff' buildings, a burning ! beam fell on Skevet Pasha. I Twelve alleged political incendiaries j wero arrested. The fire is still burning furiously. I "ITie pumps are powerless to cope with the spread of the flaces.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10295, 26 July 1911, Page 5
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102STAMBOUL FIRE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10295, 26 July 1911, Page 5
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