ORIGIN OF FIRE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 12

ORIGIN OF FIRE

BRITISH AIR LINER

INCENDIARIST ABOARD

OPINION OP EXPERTS

Cnited Press Association—By Electric T«lfe , graph—CopyrighL , (Eeceived April 6, 2 p.m.) . ... ' ' LONDON, April 5. . The Brussels correspondent of., th 9 "Daily Express" states that Belgian experts, after -examining the wreck of the .City of Liverpool, decided that the fire started in the passengers' lavatory at the tail of the machine, as shown by the fact that the lavatory door had been burnt on the inside only.. -The experts are convinced that Voss y&s in' the lavatory, as he leapt through a side door adjacent ■to ths lavatory. : ' ' ■ ' . .'

'The- last, two nights of Voss and Dearden at Brussels "had been spent at cabarets-, entertaining '. women. : Toss told a girl that s-h'e .would soon see a lot about him in the newspapers. The men had been drinking heavily. ". \

' The Manchester correspondent of th§ "Daily Express". adds that Toss was a/srnugglei' of .heavily dutiable goods in connection with ■ dental business. Voss's liabilities in Britain were estimated at £6000, and his debts abroad .at many thousands. /