FIRE FREQUENCY
FOUR IN CHRISTCHURCH LAST NIGHT NO CAUSE FOR SUSPICION [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, February 9. “ The four outbreaks of fire in the city last night and the number of other large fires recently do not in themselves give any cause to believe that incendiarists are active in the city,” said Chief-detective Dunlop this morning. “ Fires have occurred in cycles before, and this might be just an unfortunate succession of outbreaks. As yet the police have no reason to believe otherwise. “Nevertheless, in wartime especially, the theory that some disgruntled people are making trouble in this way cannot be discounted, and we are making thorough investigations,” he said. “ So far the buildings have all been so well alight when the alarm was raised that little could be saved, and any trace of petrol, combustibles, or explosives, if any had been there, would have been destroyed. There has been nothing to cause suspicion yet, however.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23496, 9 February 1940, Page 8
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156FIRE FREQUENCY Evening Star, Issue 23496, 9 February 1940, Page 8
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