MEXICAN FOREST FIRES
SIXTY LIVES LOST.
(Australian Preen Assn. —United Service.) . (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)
(Received May 11, Midday). MEXICO CITY, May 10.
Forty children and twenty adults are reported dead as the result of forest fires which swept the village of Xochilapa (Guerrero State) on Wednesday. Fir© engulfed the village before daybreak, the victims being burnt in their'beds. Hundreds, of villagers are homeless. '
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1929, Page 7
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