FIRE AT BUENAVENTURA
COLOMBIA'S PACIFIC PORT
IMMENSE DAMAGE DONE
: (Beceived 27th January, 1 p.m.)' VANCOUVER, 26th January. A message from Buenaventura (Colombia) states that a fire, believed to have been the work of an incendiary, destroyed the business district. oJ Buenaventura on Monday with a loss of five million dollars. Buildings occupied by the Royal Bank of Canada, the Customs, Government, telegraph, and. postal offices and three hotels and virtually every store in the city wer« turned. , >
Buenaventura is the most important Pacific port of Colombia, 348 mile» south of Panama and 343 miles distan* from the capital,1 Bogota, across thj> Andes. It is the terminus of a raili; way system intended ultimately t4 link up with the Atlantic Ocean at Cartagena. The population is about 10,000.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1931, Page 9
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127FIRE AT BUENAVENTURA Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1931, Page 9
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