GREATEST IN HISTORY
Oil Fires Affect Weather
(Rec. 1 p.m.) BATAVIA, Feb. 17. Four days after they were lit, the greatest oil fires in history are still raging at Palembang. Dense clouds of smoke rise 25,000 feet over the installations and the glare is visible from points 100 miles away.
The fires are so vast that they have even influenced the weather, causing exceptionally severe thunderstorms.
and the fact that many of them earlier had fought in Singapore. Not one of them was gloomy. They shared their food with us, and did everything .they could to help."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 7
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