Hangchow, Jan 23.
There are not less than 200 fire insurance agents and brokers in Hangchow, and in the event of a fire, there is no fixed rate of compensation given by the insurance companies, as the loss has to be assessed first. On Sunday, a gathering of agents and brokers met in a house near the West Lake to discuss ways and means to make the insurance companies pay the full amount of the policy. The
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