BIG FIRE IN BANGKOK
Recd. 8.10 p.m. Bangkok, Feb. 14. All available British troops, Gurkhas and Sikhs, were called out to help tight a great fire which, after starting in the well-known silverware district, within a few hours swept through the most densely populated market area of Bangkok, gutting thousands of small houses and threaiening to make at least 10,000 homeless. It is feared that casualties will be very high. The majority of the blazing houses are Chinese, but numbers oi Siamese and Indian dwellings also have been destroyed. Low water pressure hampered the fire-fighters, while a wind fanned the flames.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 38, 15 February 1946, Page 5
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