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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 28, 1939
Colossal Fire Rages In City: All London Brigades Out
LONDON, TO-DAY.
THE ENTIRE FIRE-FIGHTING FORCES OF THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL WERE ENGAGED LAST NIGHT IN AN EFFORT TO CONTROL A GREAT CONFLAGRATION IN THE HEART OF THE CITY OF LONDON FIRE DANGER ZONE, RESULTING FROM A FIRE WHICH BROKE OUT IN A FIVE-STOREY GENERAL WAREHOUSE ON THE COR- NER OF THE BARBICAN AND NEW ZEALAND AVENUE, WITHIN A STONE'S THROW OF ALDERSGATE UNDER- GROUND STATION.
Outside fire stations have been urgently told to stand by in
case
of calls from other parts of the area, since. 59 L.C.C. stations have sent men and appliances to the Bar- bican, where operations are being directed by Major Jackson, Acting Chief Officer.
SHEETS OF FLAME
Six giant water towers poured thousands of gallons of water on to the fire, which soon included. eight great warehouses of which four were rapidly gutted.
The whole of Aldersgate. Street was within a short time flooded to a depth of a foot.
Solid sheets of flame swept from building to building, while a vast cloud of smoke rose high over the city.
The Post Office in the Barbican was threatened by the encroaching blaze.
Up to nine o'clock last evening it was not known if there had been any lives lost."
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES
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FRIEND OF BRITAIN DEAD
Tokyo, To-day.
The death has occurred here of Baron Gensuke Hayasha, at the age of 78.
Baron Hayasha was a diplomat and Privy Councillor.
He was Japanese Ambassador in London during the Great War and was a staunch friend of Britain. He held the British honours of Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George and Grand Cross of the Victorian Order. · Reuter.
COMMANDERS
When the fire first started there RETURNING FROM
were about 100 men and women in
various buildings, and many of SINGAPORE
them had a miraculous escape from death by getting away over the roofs of other buildings and thence Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Com- through their emergency fire exits.mander-in-Chief of the 'China Sta- It is feared that the damage will tion, and Major-General A. E. Gras- reach $1,000,000.-British Wire-sett, O.. C. British Troops, are ar-
lesa.
THETIS SALVAGE ATTEMPTS
London, To-day, "Attempts to raise the ill-fated submarine. Thetis are to be resum- ed: to-morrow if weather conditions permit.
Cammel Laird's have especially atted out the 3,800 tons 8.8. Zello for work.
kenere on Saturday in HM.S.
Kent from the defence conference in Singapore.
LORD HALIFAX SEES THE KING
London, To-day,
For the first time since the re- His Majesty received Lord Halifax turn of King George from America, in audience at Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon.
Mr. R. S. Johnson, managing director of the company, announced It is stated that in the course of yesterday that if it was possible to the conversation, which lasted for raise the submarine to the surface about an hour, the Foreign Secre- It would be towed into shallow water tary reviewed the international at Red - Whara Bay, off" Anglesea situation in detail. Trans-Ocean. Island Trans-Ocean
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