£1,000,000 DAMAGE
CONSTANTINOPLE BLAZE LAW COURTS GUTTED CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 3. The most extensive lire in the city’s recent history, after gutting the Law Courts and destroying archives, was only prevented by a strong gale from reaching the mosque of St. Sophia. The flames reached a point, only 10 yards distant. The mosque’s early Christian gold mosaics were only recently restored by the Sultan. The Ahmed mosque was also threatened.
Soldiers escorted inmates of an adja cent prison to safer custody. The damage amounts to £1,000.0C0 Half a million documents were burned and because of that judicial life in Tur key will be paralysed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18263, 5 December 1933, Page 5
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