Best Costume for Summer Time Hongkong, July 7.
Excitement was caused on Stonecutters Island bathing beach this evening when a number of matsheds caught fire while some of the bathers were dressing.
About 50 men swimmers helped to save the women and their dresses from the cabins, their own being burnt.
There were no casualties.
The men returned to Hongkong in their bathing costumes.
It is believed that the lighted stump of a cigarette caused the conflagration.—Reuter.
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