QUICK RECOVERY
CITY OF LONDON AT WORK AGAIN SOME STRANGE SIGHTS SEEN. USE OF HALF-BURNT BUILDING. ’ By Telegraph—Press AssiX'iatlon—Copyright i LONDON. January 1. Tlie City has made a quick recovery from Sunday night’s fire-bombing. All the fires have been extinguished, and the work of making the damaged buildings safe is progressing. There were strange sights as business men conferred at street corners or outside their burnt-out premises, and pedestrians frequently saw typists carrying on nonchantly inside half-burnt buildings.
The 8.8. C. reports that the City of; London was shaken by an explosion when the Rpyal Engineers dynamited a) damaged building left in a dangerous condition. The explosion at first fail-) ed, and senior officers who investigat- ’ ed found that the fuse for some reason had burnt out an inch short of the. charge. The fuse was replaced and j the charge exploded. Some damaged - buildings are being destroyed without the* use of explosives, but others will have to be dynamited.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1941, Page 5
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