Qa the: morning of the Std inst., about half-past seven 'o'clock, a fire broke out in Tong-yn-lan, or the' Western suburb, Canton, and soon spread with alarming rapidity. The tative fire" brigades did their best to convey water to the scene of the fire, but the keepers of the brothels, which' shouud in this district: believing they. were intending to steal the' inmates, fired at them. One fireman was shot dead and two others seriously injured. The fire raged with great fury until after mid-hight, and upwards of a hundred houses were destroyed.
THE REBELLION IN THE CHIGCHOU DISTRICT,
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