DISASTROUS FRENCH FIRE
ESTIMATED £400;000 DAMAGE COTTON WAREHOUSE RAZED. LOSS OF 33,000 BALES. FIVE THOUSAND CUT OF WORK.. Jiiito cl Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.15 p.m. to-day. PARIS, Aug. 1. The Gotonere de Fives at Lille, the largest warehouse in the European industry, was destroyed by fire to-day as a result of spontaneous combustion. Thirty-three thousand bales of cotton were "burned and the damage is estimated at £409,000. If ive thousand workers have been thrown out of employment. _ _
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 August 1933, Page 9
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81DISASTROUS FRENCH FIRE Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 August 1933, Page 9
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