FIRE IN LONDON
BIGGEST SINCE OUTBREAK OF WAR
FIVE HUNDRED FIREMEN ENGAGED.
DESTRUCTION OF LARGE WAREHOUSE.
('Ey Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright)
LONDON. August 9.
Five hundred firemen operating a hundred appliances and seven fireboats were engaged for several hours extinguishing one of the biggest fires m London since the outbreak of war.
The fire destroyed a large sevenfloor warehouse at St. Catherine’s dock, near the Tower Bridge.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1940, Page 6
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66FIRE IN LONDON Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1940, Page 6
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