FIRE IN PALACE.
King Albert’s Magnificent Home Threatened. BRIGADE'S DESPERATE FIGHT. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received December 22, noon.) BRUSSELS, December 21. Three fire brigades took an hour to subdue a fire in King Albert’s magnificent palace. They fought desperately to pi event the flames from spreading to the the Salon, where there are countless historic treasures. The city’s entire police force was sent to control the thousands of onlookers. The fire destroyed the oak beams in the dome of the palace and the support- ► ing girders.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 1
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