On Tuesday at about 11.15 a.m. the Fire Brigade were called out to a fire which was reported as being in a boat in the Soochow Creek and on arrival there they found that there was an outbreak on one of the Italian submarine chasers, Mas. 226, from which smoke was issuing in about the neighbourhood of the engine room. The two submarine chasers were moored alonyside the Rowing Club landing stage and when the Fire Brigade arrived they found that the outbreak had practically been extinguished. by means of a chemical extinguisher. Boarding the vessel, the firemen noticed that water was coming through the bottom of the vessel, and they learned that, fearing an explosion,-the crew had decided to scuttle the craft. Everything possible was taken off the boat, which was by this time settling by the stern and a hawser was. passed under her to her sister ship in order to give some support while the fire float pumped her out. By 4 p.m. this was accomplished and after the holes had been stopped the boat was towed to the Old
more by water than by fi Dock by the fire fast, Gamaged A Moror-Car ox Fine, At 6 p.m. on Tuesday a call was received to a motor-car, No. 400 on fire at the corner of Honan and Nanking Roads. Here it was found that the engine had taken fire and the services of a fireman with a chemical extinguisher were all that was necessary to quell the outbreak. v\'The car was sufficiently badly hurt to be unable to proceed to the owner's premises-under her own power. but it is thought that the machine is not irretrievably damaged.
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