Going up in flames on Thursday morning, the Hotel de France in Avenue Edward Vil provided. the most spectacttar fire of the China New Year period, Completely gut tody the east side of the building Presents a contrast to. the. {ern end, where a radio station has itr studios.
Rushing out_ of the building shortly before 5 am, when the manager gave the aiatin, guests and Servants of the Hotel de' France had 'Arnarrow escape. When the French Tire' Brigade arrived on the scene ater a fast turn-out flames were tire shooting out in he ated 30 rapid was the spread of the fre the old-style building.
M. Maurice Lo Dare, the manager Nobody suffered injuries except
of the hotel, who received one minor cuts when he had to break his way out of a window, the staircase being in flames. The few others in the hotel included 'MIN. Lo Dore's wife, and one foreign and three Chinese members of the sta Cmdr, John Marshall had a lucky escape." Flames spread over his fat without touching it, and he did not know that the building was on fire until heat and. smoke awoke him, after the ftenten had got the blaze under central,
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