Creprr is due to members of the Chapei Fire Brigade for the manner in which they dealt with an outbreak of fire at the China Electric Company's factory in the early hongs of Sunday - morning. The factory, an - extensive. one situated in Gheng-an Road, just over the Soochow Creek, was ''out' of bounds" for the Settlement Brigade, but equipment from the three Chapei stations, now supplied with motor pumps and other up-to-date gear, was smartly got to work and the fire was confined to the central block of buildings in which it originated. This was a store room on the first floor, containing a quantity of telephone supplies for the Chinese Government and, on the ground floor, a good deal of valuable machinery and plant, much of which was saved from damage by fire.,,, The damage done is estimated at*Tls. 100,000. Most of the insurance was carried by the American-Asiatic Underwriters, and amounted to $450,000 and Tls. 54,000.
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