DESTROYED IN FIRE RAID
(British Official Wireless.) (10.30 a.m.) PtUGBY, July 4. It has just been officially disclosed that the central telegraph office, the centre of Britain’s telegraph service, was destroyed on the night of the great fire raid on London on December 29, 1940. Only a portion of the apparatus and instruments was saved, but the service was fully restored in alternative accommodation within three weeks.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20828, 6 July 1942, Page 6
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67DESTROYED IN FIRE RAID Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20828, 6 July 1942, Page 6
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