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TWENTY DEAD IN FRENCH FIRE MARSEILLES France Oct 28 At least twenty persons were reported killed today by a fire which fanned by a strong wind threatened to destroy the entire old Canne bier quarter of Marseilles MarseillesThe The victims perished when they leaped from upper stories of burning buildings or were caught by the spreading flames flamesRaging Raging unchecked the blaze spread to the Hotel Noailles where Premier Eduoard Daladicr and other government officials have been staying and to the Hotel Grand GrandThe The radical Socialist Congress which has been in session was adjourned until tomor ¬ row as Daladier Paul Marchandcau and others rushed out of the meeting in an at ¬ tempt to save their papers and luggage from the hotels Speeches scheduled to be de ¬ livered before the Congress by Ministers Georges Bonnet and Eduard Herriot were postponed postponedAll All fire fighting brigades of the city bat ¬ tled the 1000000 conflagration the worst of the century in Marseilles
