Paper Mill in Flames and Partially Destroyed: Heavy Task for Firemen Another large conflagration took place at 2.20 o'clock on Thursday morning when the Pao Yuen Paper Mill at Pootung, said to be one of the largest of its kind in China, was seen to be in flames. The fire could be witnessed from the Bund and proved to be, indeed, a very} spectacular affair. It would have been even more disastrous but for the prompt action of the staff of the British Cigarctte Ca. and the Shanghai Fire Brigade, under Mr. M. W. Pett, Chief Officer. Three mill hands and a dynamo attendant were rather badly burnt and had to be sent to Shanghai for treatment, as were Sub-Officer Caynes, and Chinese Fireman No. 235, Judging from appearances, the outbreak started in a beater room, a threestoreyed building running from east to west—from one side of the mill to the other—and the flames spread through the rope race to the main engine room, and thence to the roof.
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