FIRE AMONG PETROL DRUMS
BATAVIA, Aug. 14. One of the biggest fires in Batavia s history took place this afternoon among 300,000 drums of petrol and oil at the Shell Company’s depot at Kampong Ketja. near Tandjong Priok. Batavia’s port, says the A.A.P.-Reuter correspondent. Sabotagp is suspected. Hundreds of fire-fighters and all Batavia’s fire-fighting equipment were working to extinguish the blaze and move part of the tremendous store of petrol to safety. The fire was later extinguished. The damage was confined to a section of the tremendous dump of petrol-filled drums and tanks that covered acres of the storage depot. No estimate of the damage is yet available.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26541, 16 August 1947, Page 7
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