CHRISTMAS GUESTS
FIRE IN CORNISH HOTEL AN UNFORTUNATE EXPERIENCE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 27. While a Union Jack flared defiance to flames which shone far over the Channel 100 disconsolate guests faced a gloomy dawn watching the destruction of the east wing of the St. Austell’s Bay Hotel, Cornwall. Many of those who were thus dispossessed usually stay at tho Riviera, but patriotism prompted them to remain in England to spend Christmas, their reward being tho destruction of everything but what they stood up in. This was not much, because many escaped in their night clothes, sliding down water pipes. Four fire brigades were soon lighting the flames amid dense smoke, while tho guests shivered on chairs or settees dragged out by the firemen. The hotel was erected in 1930 in record time, and will be renovated immediately.
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Evening Star, Issue 20987, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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