Breaking out almost in the heart of a very crowded section of Tong: Krew, 9 fre which destroyed ber of small" Chinesestype owser on Monday afternoon on Chapon fast was only extinguished with." grent dimeulty by "ihe Shanghai "Fire Brigade, Fanned by a slight caster: ly wing, the fre of one tine threa-[ened to sweep down on the Japanese Club in Boone Toad, but the berfculean efforts of firemen from the Central and Hongkew Fire. Stations, who dragged hoses down. narrow. {winding alley-ways and over shaky Foot tops, finally prevailed.
"The ten houses" damaged by the fire adjoined each other. in. 'Lane 160, Chapoo. Road, and. consisted Japanese geisha houses and sukiyaki restaurants, 'The fre apparently about 830 pam. in the house' nearest the road, and" the flames spread rapidly 10 the other houses, the majority of. which were well alight by the time the machines from Hongkew Fire' Station had arrived.
The six machines from Hongkew Station soon found hat enough hoses ould not be brought to beat upon [ihe fire to prevent it spreading, and five more machines, were summoned fromthe Central Fire. Station, and the salvage tender_was ordered from 'Tiendong. Road Station. Attending his second fargo fre of the day, Captain J. G. Dyson, Chief ofoer jot the' Brigade, had' by' this time strived on the' scene, and the work fighting. the flames prgcceded Ander his orders.
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