SALONIKA FIRES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 August 1917, Page 5

SALONIKA FIRES.

SALONIKA, Aug. 24

A remarkable feature of the great fire was that it started in several places simultaneously. Freeh outbreaks constantly occurred as others were tackled, and half the city was blazing within two hours. The terrified refugees fled from quarter to quarter, vainly seeking safety as the flames spread. German aeroplane bombs increased their terror, and when the sea front wae reached a holacaust seemed likely, but the British Navy took off the huddled crowds, and army motor lorries evacuated thousands by road.