GREAT FIRE AT BANGKOK
FLAMES SWEEP MARKET AREA
Bangkok, Feb. 14
All availah’e British troops. Gurkhas and Sikhs have been called out to help fight a great fire which, after starting in the silverware district, within a few hours swept through the moat densely-populated market area of Bangkok.
The conflagration has burned out thousands of small houses and threatens to make at least 10,000 people homeless. It is feared that the casualties will be very high. The majority of the blazing, houses belong to Chinese, but numbers of Siamese and Indian dwellings also have been destroyed. Low water pressure hampered the fire fighters while wind fanned the flames.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 13988, 16 February 1946, Page 3
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