DOCKS ABLAZE
Nightlong Fire at Hull END OF DRY AUGUST Thousand Aid Brigades MIDLAND MOORS BURN Sy Telegraph.—-Press Assn.—Copyright (Received September 1, 8.85 p.m.) London, September 1. The finest August for a c . entu jy dosed with the worst fire for 50 years, raging , all ni = , ' t ln HuH Docks. The outbreak stacks (of Russian timber at Alex andra Dock. i All ships in the dock had to be moved while a thousand volunteers aided every available fireman to prevent ' the flames spreading. Trains used to rush timber from the danger zone. Flames 50 feet high were visible 30 miles away. ' Many moorland fires are raging in the Midlands, including an area eight square miles, near Doncaster, which has been blazing for four days. Reading brewery rescued thirsty vn lagers in the Burghfleld district, to whom the management sent water in beer-casks. ... Thousands of birds died of thirst in East Anglia and elsewhere.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 290, 2 September 1933, Page 7
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