HOUSES DESTROYED
FORTY PEOPLE HOMELESS.
INCENDIARISM ALLEGED SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT, Received) Oct. 5, 11.25 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 4. Three masked men, in, a two-seater motor-car, were seen m the neighbouihood of Haath, near Deal, before an outbreak of fire which destroyed six homes and rendered over forty people, including twenty-five children, homeless. . .. David Hollands, a, farm worker, living in one of the destroyed dwellings, heard a motor-car stop. He got out of bed and saw masked men in a car, which later drove off. Hollands returned to bed, but shortly after was roused again by people shouting “Fire!” . . The outbreak follows a senes or fires in the same neighbourhood, and is attributed to incendiarism. One ot the outbreaks caused damage estimated at £15,000 Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 October 1925, Page 5
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130HOUSES DESTROYED Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 October 1925, Page 5
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