EARLY MORNING FIRE
OLD WORLD MANSION DAMAGED. PRINCESS MARY’S ESCAPE. (Received 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, November 9. Princess Mary and Lord Lascelles wore among dozens of guests at a Yorkshire house party who escaped in night attire when an alarm of fire was given at 5 o’fdock in the morning. The scene of the outbreak was Bretton Park, a timbered old world mansion standing in a thousand acres near Wakefield. It was the property of Lord Allendale. One of the guests in a room adjoining the nursery wing, where the fire originated, beard the noise of flames and roused Lord and Lady Allendale and Lord Lascelles and Princess Marv.
Lady Allendale ran into the smokefilled nursery and assisted the escape of three sleeping children.
Princess Mary assisted by Lord Lascelles, saved some art treasures.
The guests, in various stages of attire, left the house. Later on the local fire brigade saved the mansion from destruction. The floor of the nursery fell through the library. Telegrams were immediately despatched to the King and Queen informing them of the safety of tho Princess. —A. and N.Z.
After the fire—what? It’s all a matte of insurance! Insure today with The Mercantile ami General Insurance Co., Ltd. Whangarei Agent: A. H. Curtis, Cameron Street. 3
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Northern Advocate, 10 November 1927, Page 6
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