SABOTAGE SUSPECTED
BIG FIRE IN MELBOURNE OIL COMPANY'S DEPOT MELBOURNE. Mar. 21. In one of the most spectacular fires seen in Melbourne for years thousands of gallons of petrol, kerosene, crude oil and lubricating oil at the Vacuum Oil Company's depot at Spotswood railway siding, near the mouth of the Yarra. were lost late last night. Sabotage is suspected. Over 200 explosions were heard during the fire. Hundreds of police and military guards threw a cordon around the depot, and soldiers with fixed bayonets held back the crowd, estimated at 20,000, because of the danger of the flames spreading to the huge main containers. The fuel destroyed was housed in galvanised iron sheds.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 12
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113SABOTAGE SUSPECTED Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 12
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