LORD MAYOR ABLAZE
DUKE OF YORK AS FIREMAN. USE OF SODA WATER SYPHON. LONDON, July 23. The Duke of York’s resourcefulness was amusingly illustrated at Belfast, where he and the Duchess of York are touring. During a civic luncheon a box of matches in the Lord Mayor’s waistcoat pocket took fire and blazed up, scorching uis robe. The Duke of York squirted the contents of' a soda-water syphon on to tho Lord Mayor and extinguished oho flames. The luncheon party laughed uproariously, tho Duke and the Lord Mayor joining in.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19240, 2 August 1924, Page 12
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