Serious Fire in Chapei Early on Wednesday Morning An elderly woman received serious burns about the body, and some 200 mud and bamboo' huts were razed to the ground ju a fire which occurred in Chapei off Dixwell Road carly on Wednesday morning. -An alarm was given, te which the brigades from Chapei and the Settlement responded, when it was found that a large number of the huts were in flames, which were being fanned by a' very strong wind.
The fire broke out at 2 a.m. in the house of a coolie, aged 71, who made his living by selling shavings picked up from carpenters' shops, to but this man managed to estape from the fire just in time, An
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