GREATEST OIL FIRE IN HISTORY
Palembang Installations Still Burning (Rec. 6.30) BATAVIA, Feb. 17. Four days after it was lit the greatest oil fire in history is still raging at Palembang, Sumatra. Dense clouds of smoke rise 25,000 feet over the installations, and the glare is visible from points 100 miles away. The fires are so vast that they have even influenced the weather, causing exceptionally severe thunderstorms.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22202, 20 February 1942, Page 5
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68GREATEST OIL FIRE IN HISTORY Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22202, 20 February 1942, Page 5
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