DESTROYED BY FIRE
GREAT DUTCH PAVILION
GEM OF PARIS EXHIBITION
(Bccoived 29th June, 11 a.m.)
PAEIS, 28th June. The Dutch Pavilion at tho French Colonial Exhibition, architecturally a copy of a Sumatra pagoda, and rogardod, with its valuable art collections, as ono of tho goms of the exhibition, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at £400,000. The fire is believed to have been due to si short circuit. Tho architect and his wife narrowly escaped with their lives, leaping from a window in their nightclothes,
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 9
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87DESTROYED BY FIRE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 9
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