FOREST FIRES IN SWEDEN.
GREAT AREAS DE6TROYED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.
(Recd.-10.30 p.m.) GOTHENBURG, June-18. Fire has destroyed great areas of the woods in western Sweden. The fires are raging along a front of 14 miles,' and already have caused damage estimated by millions of pounds. Soldiers and thousands of civilians are engaged in combating the fires.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16570, 20 June 1917, Page 8
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