THE BIG FIRE IN LONDON
NOT CAUSED BY UNEMPLOYED.
(VNITfD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIMOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN • NEW ZSAUND CAJI.R. ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, Bth August. Mr. Gliksten has informed th© press■that' the unemployed were totally unconnected wifch the nre in the firm's timber yard in the East.End of London. Ths ■outbreak commenced on the Lea Oanal side, which could not be reached by the unemployed.- ' / ■ The damage, is authoritatively estimated at a quarter of a million. , [Serious riots took place at. Gliksten's timber yard in East London, _ where five thousand unemployed came in response to an advertisement for fifty hands. They were: so angered at'their failure to secure work that they broke the gates, and raided the offices. Subsequently the fire broke out.]
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 35, 10 August 1921, Page 5
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118THE BIG FIRE IN LONDON Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 35, 10 August 1921, Page 5
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