VAST FIRE
1N SIAMESE CITY Ten Thousand Homeless (Rec. 8.10. BANGKOK, Feb. 14. All the available British troops, Gurkhas and Sikhs, in Siam have been called out to help to fight a great fire which, after starting _in the well-known silverware district, 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 ten thousand homeless. It is feared the casualties will be very high. The major ly of the blazing houses were those of Chinese, but numbers of Siamese and Indian dwellings are afi. > destroyed. Low water pressure hampered the fire fighters, wmle the wind fanned the flames.
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Grey River Argus, 15 February 1946, Page 5
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