The General, who certainly take a keen interest in Hankow matters, also suggests that the Provincial] [Council should consider two question arising out of the recent disastrous fires.
He wishes to see established permanent organization for th relief of widespread distress amon, the poorer classes, and he withes scheme to be devi for substituting brick hanes of avery cheap kind for the huts made of boards ud mat in which so I Re 2 proportion of the coolie class: The peril in which the business centre of the town found itself through allowing, many thousand mat-huts to be erect-in close proximity to large build. ings has evidently brought this ques. tion to a head.
Since the terrible blaze a week ago, there has been another outbreak: Jamong the huts, a second originating in the Pao-ho Medi Store in the Jex-German concession which involved of the Kus Lee beibdued, and a third on the borders of the ex-British concession which resulted in the destruction of the premises of a biscuit company and serious damage to five houses. On each of these occasions! it has been made clear that some more adequate provision of water-ruaing must be made, for the supply was totally inadequate for all the!
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