At the tenth annual meeting of the Association of Professional Fire Brigade Officers held at Bristol, discussion took place upon the subject of fire inquests. Speaking upon this subject Mr. Pett, the recently appointed chief officer of the Shanghai Fire Department, gave the result of his experience in Singapore, and said that in 1908, when he took office there it was a well-known fact that seventy-five per cent. of fires in Singapore were of incendiary origin. Any two persons could now demand a fire quest, and it was found that this
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