BIG LONDON FIRE
TWO FIREMEN KILLED (Received July 8, 9.30 a.m.) : LONDON, July 7. While firemen were fighting a big dockside fire at Poplar a wall crashed, killing two firemen and injuring a third. Their comrades dashed into the debris and recovered the bodies. The fire involved a three-storey sack factory. Two hundred firemen, sixty engines, motor pumps, ladders, and other appliances were requisitioned, and firefloats operated from the Thames. The roof of the factory collapsed with a noise like thunder. R.v specl.il arrangement Router's world service, !u-addition to other special sources of I Infcirinatlmi, is used in Ilio compilation ot the I ijvci-scks lntulllKi'iicc published in Mils Issue, an;l ;ill rlchls therein in Ansli-a"* and Kcw Zealand arc reserved.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 7, 8 July 1935, Page 9
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