INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED
—-—.———- SIX HOUSES DESTROYED. FORTY PEOPLE HOMELESS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 4. (Deceived October 5, at 9.40 n.m.) Three masked men in a two-seater motor car were seen in the neighborhood of Hoath, near Deal, before an outbreak of fire, which destroyed six homes and rendered over forty people, including twenty-five children, homeless. David Holland, a- farm worker, living in one of the destroyed dwellings, heard a motor car stop. He got out of bed, and saw' masked men in a car, which later drove off. Hollands returned to his bed, but shortly after was roused again hy people shouting “Firel ” The outbreak follows a series of fires in the same neighborhood, and is attributed to incendiarism. One fire caused damage estimated at £15,000. — A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 6
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130INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 6
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