LONDON EXPLOSION
HEART-BREAKING EXPERIENCES WHOLE STREET ABLAZE, (Receved 11.10 a.m.) United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 21. High Holbron shopkeepers in the danger area had heartbreaking experiences. A butcher with £4OO worth of Christmas turkeys is remaining open but there are no customers because the shop overlooks a huge cavern. The patients at the Royal Westminster Hospital are being fed on cold tinned foods as fires are not permitted. Operations, cannot he undertaken as the water is cut off. Ugent operations necessary to prevent a patient losing liis sight, was carried out with the aid of an electric steriliser. A'big section of High Holborn continues desolate. Five hundred police and mariy firemen were on duty all night. Many houses© are compulsorily evacuated. Flames continue to roar through the ever-widening fissures in the streets, making the region a miniature inferno. The fires in some places are threatening the foundations of high buildings. Water is being pumped" in to combat the peril.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11025, 22 December 1928, Page 6
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