FIRE DAMAGE AT WOOLWICH ARSENAL
LONDON, March 23 (Recd 9.50 pm). —Fire in an office building at Woolwich Arsenal early this morning damaged three floors and the roof. Fifteen fire engines soon bad the fire under control. Woolwich Arsenal, on the banks of the Thames about eight miles from Central London, occupies an area 35 miles long and one mile broad. It includes gun and torpedo factories, a laboratory and the Army anti Navy Ordnance departments. Two firemen were injured by falling debris. —Reuter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 24 March 1950, Page 5
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