The French Fire Brigade turned out to exactly 100 calls during the year. Of these 82 proved to be but Seg meting ta Tie, o4,608|2™All_ fires, while three were false only:
the 1923 figures for Chinese shazaibn "Shaxe Were' S6 is, Steer which anything from three to 14 losses were Tls. 183,798, or practic. streams had to be called into play, ally twice those of this past yea but in one only was the building It should be understood that all totally destroyed. these losses are on buildings coming under the Foreign Building Regula-Both the French and the Settletions and Chinese Building Rule ment brigades have every cat During the year the brigade|be proud of their work, at received 457 calls, of which, however, public on both sides owe them a 127 came under the category of deep debt of gratitude, false alarms, chimney fires or a istence rendered out of the Settl ment limits, The actual On Saturday evening, five men, amounted to $20 only, a decrease on [two of whom were armed with pis: last year's actual fires.
The pro-tols, entered a Chinese house at 112 perty at risk is estimated at Ti Wauchow Road, drove three women 23,702,550, comprising Tls. 20,411, Jand two children into a room and 700, foreign buildings, and. there took away the women's ear~ 3,290,850, Chinese. Of" this hug rings, valued at $7. Evidently not total, only two and a half per cent, satisfied with such small loot, the was lost, a remarkably good record robbers went off apparently to 1 in spite of the fact it is an increas sack the house, but when they left of about one per cent. on last year. the room one of the women promptly Here again, however, the "Shangh shut and bolted the door and shouted Times" fire and the Honigsberg fire for help, whereupon the gang decamped.
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