CALAMITOUS FIRE
OUTBREAK IN DAMASCUS LARGS PART OF CITY DESTROYED [ Times Cables. ] LONDON, June 22. The Damascus correspondent of the Times states that the best part of the city, including hotels and the Wakfs building, with the valuable museum, 300 houses and 70 shops were destroyed by fire. The damage is £500,000. French soldiers employed dynamite to arrest the outbreak and are taking measures against looting.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20181, 25 June 1928, Page 8
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66CALAMITOUS FIRE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20181, 25 June 1928, Page 8
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