EXTENSIVE GRASS FIRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1944, Page 4

EXTENSIVE GRASS FIRE

IN AREA BEHIND MASTERS CRESCENT, FLAMES REACH LAWNS. The Masterton Fire Brigade received a call at 1.25 p.m. today to a grass fire alongside the railway line behind Masters Crescent. When the brigade arrived a large area of grass was blazing and heavy smoke was drifting into the houses in Masters Crescent. A westerly breeze fanned the flames until they reached the back lawns of three residences. The fire was soon put out'by the brigade. ANOTHER OUTBREAK. At 2.20 p.m. the brigade was called out to a grass fire along the railway line in the vicinity of Cornwall Street, hold their ground, run a grave risk of encirclement. The enemy’s Ukraine defence is now hopelessly broken. The Germans, suffering huge losses and ill-equipped to fight a winter campaign, are falling back along a 200mile front. The magnitude of the German losses is more and more apparent with every mile of the Russian advance. The enemy’s armoured forces are suffering terrible Wows.