FIRE IN TOBACCO FACTORY
HEAVY DAMAGE CAUSED. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Convright. London, Nov. 1. Damage to the extent of £l5-0,000 sterling was done by a fire in the British Tobacco Company’s premises at Southampton. Five hundred workers are rendered idle, as the factory is the centre of the company’s export trade. The firemen were greatly handicapped by the fact that the building is under ’a customs bond, the doors and windows being double barred. Firemen had to fight their way into the structure with the aid of choppers and crowbars.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1926, Page 10
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