FRENCH FOREST FIRES.
SEVENTY SQUARE MILES. DESTRUCTION NEAR TOULON ' Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ffiecd. 4.30 p.m.) PARIS, Aug. 26. Great fires that started in communal forests at Pierrefeu, near Toulon, spread to Collobrieres, where much privaite aad public property has been destroyed. Seventy square miles of country are affected. So far the losses are estimated at £1,000,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18180, 28 August 1922, Page 7
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