FIRE OUTBREAKS
OXFORD STREET FATALITY [by CAJBLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, December 28. A watchman Was burnt to death and stock valued at £30,000, including 80,000 records, gramophones, radios and television sets, was destroyed in a fire which occurred at the premises of His Master’s Voice Company, in Oxford Street.
SPECIAL TANK TESTED
RUGBY, December 28.
For the first time in the history of the London Fire Brigade, a large canvas tank, designed for service in the air raid precaution measures, was set up in the middle of Oxford Street, to provide extra pressure for the hoses with which 250 firemen, for three hours, fought the H.M.V. fire. Thirty fire-engines were engaged in dealing with the outbreak.
JAP. TRAIN DISASTER
(Recd. Dec. 29, Noon). TOKIO, December 28
A burning cigarette butt, igniting a consignment of celluloid toys aboard atrain, set fire to it, near Moji. There were seven deaths, and 35 were injured. Two carriages were burnt out.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 December 1937, Page 5
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