DETERMINED INCENDIARISTS.
ANOTHER CHRISTCHURCH EIRE
fßv Telegraph.—Press Association.) y CHRISTCHURCH, July 29. An attempt was made by ineendiarists on Sunday morning to destroy the temporarily unoccupied house of Mr. T. J. Porterfield iii Mersey, St. Albans, A neighbour gave the alarm and a police sergeant pulled out some burning bedding before much damage was done. '
ANOTHER ATTEMPT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 29. An incendiarist last night made an attempt to set fir.e to a tank at the •Oasis Petrol Station, in Liverpool Street. To set a train to the tank the man used a length of rubber tubing soaked in petrol. The son of the proprietor was returning to get his bicycle and discovered the burning ‘tube when the flame had travelled to within a short distance of the tank, and he was able to prevent a blaze.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17649, 29 July 1929, Page 5
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