The fire broke out in a tea shop, situated in the centre of the Lupadu Village which is on the Pootung. side, more or less in the Tung-Kadoo district. The village is surrounded by a bamboo wall, and adjoins the foreign property, the evea being covered with typical Chinese houses of the lower class frame structures with thatched yeats, others with mud walls, and many bamboo sheds. The materials were of a nature to burn quickly.
There was such a high wind that the feeble efforts of the villagers to put out the fire were unavaili The Pootung Brigade were handi capped by shortage of adequate equipment and no water mains, and the Tungkadoo Brigade's machinery could not be transported in boats at the shore. The Settiem firemen, about 19 strony, laid on with decision, the strom engines on both floats working under double pressure, Lines had to be run for 500 yards back from the river, before the men could protect the godowns. It was a case of every man putting his back into it, and according to reports, both foreign ers and Chinese worked as hard for two hours as they ever had before.
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