A FAMOUS HOTEL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20961, 26 February 1930, Page 17

A FAMOUS HOTEL.

FIRE AT ALGECIRAS. SIR JAMES PARR A GUEST. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, January 16. r> "> ames Barr, accompanied by Miss Betty Parr, went to the Mediterranean coast to seek sunshine and renewed fi'enga before taking up his work for .Lord Beaverbrook’s Free-trade-in-the-Em-jaaiPaißn' And news received reported that the travellers were having a very pleasant holiday. They were staymg at the. British-owned hotel, Reina Cristina, Algeciras, on the North African coast, enjoying the change from London’s drab winter climate. Last Saturday all the visitors at the notei nad a somewhat unpleasant experience, for a fire broke out in the evening. It blazed aU night, and was still an inicino on Sunday morning. Visitors were seen searching dazedly for their belouganl.cnS the furniture and luggage heaped in the garden, where, armed soldiers were on guard. . . the majority being JnTnm™ TV'T staying at the hotel, cn-r^L a tl °vr 1 * le Barnes spread with feartW ® ver ,y on e escaped, though ihronh ?I P. l ' nct j ca % nothing. The outbreak is believed to have b""n due to a short circuit in the elomrl’ lighting system. Volunteers from adjoining vUlages made great efforts under the direcf t 0 ■ Ba,ve the vis itora’ Daggage and hotel furniture. The bricade put off from Gibraltar, but when they landed there seems to have been'a short age of water to cope with the flames i, Picturesque building the hotel had been the scene of many historic meetincs including the 1926 conference General Prime de Rivera, the Spanish Dictator, and Marshal Retain, of France lf?Cat i° n Morocco ’ Lord Fanrigdon, formerly chairman of pXs;-. c “ tra ' Eaii "^»

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