GREAT FIRE IN BANGKOK
HEAVY CASUALTIES
, BANGKOK, Feb. 14. All available British troops, Gurkhas and Sikhs, were called out to help fight a great fire which Within a few hours swept through the most densely populated market area of Bangkok, gutting thousands of small houses and threatening to make at least 10,000 people homeless. It is feared the casualties will be very heavy. The majority of blazing houses were Chinese, but numbers of Siamese and Indian dwellings were also destroyed. Low water pressure hampered the fire-fighters and a wind fanned the flames.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 February 1946, Page 5
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