Show TURK FIREMEN lOST iN N Forget Axes and Pumps When Called Call cd to Fight Disaster CONSTANTINOPLE Aug AUt 24 By By Bye The e Associated Press A A huge fire tire in the Asiatic suburb of Con- Con in Byzantine history as the city of ot the blind has destroyed the most picturesque and most Turkish district on the shores 01 ol the he The fire which started last night destroyed about old wooden lat lat- heed houses and drove six thousand refugees to the famous cemetery cemetery tery ery celebrated for Its cypresses where they hey encamped The refugees took tock shelter amid fal- fal alIen ten Ien cn tombstones and were supplied bread and water at the order of Pres- Pres PresIdent President Ident dent Mustapha Kemal who watched old Turkey burn from the palace on the he opposite shore New Turkeys Turkey's modern fire engines could not combat with a high norther- norther northerly ly Iy y wind fanning the tinder like houses The lire Ure chief and his aides lost their leads heads and rushed into the thick of ot the flames lames only to be Incapacitated and were sent to hospitals leaving the themen themen themen men without leaders A hurry call brought another com corn company company pany across the but they the were so excited th they y forgot to bring their heir hatchets and pumps Finally military tractors were called out to roll roil out and smother the flames The loss was estimated at liras Iras The Tho origin of the fire was attrib attrib- attributed attributed Wed to an old woman trying to bum burn burnout out wood bugs from the lattices in inthe Inthe inthe the windows of ot her shack |