Residenis in "the Soto Bank suburb, across the river from the city, Were wakened one night. this week by the sound of rapid fung and the shouting of many voles. A \iuge column of flame and smoke was rising from Tantzeshih, where the hundreds of troops in training are quartered, "Investigation proved that a building recently "filled with ammunition for the Central Government troops had mysteriously burst into lame, The din was deafening but a fear ofa greater calamity spurred the military to try to persuade the people of the town to flee in the direction from which the wind was blowing at the time, It was feared that another Dullding containing many aeroplane bombs should catch fire and ignite another building where poison gas, once intended for the Communist menace in Chengtu, was stored, Had the fire not been controlled in time, the whole "South Bank would undoubtedly have suffered one of the horrors of modern warfare, Two nights later fire broke out in the Linglamen section of the city, along the banks of the Little River. This Is the spot which was burned out over a large area ten years ago. when"the Woman's Foreign Misslon-'Methodist Church was ary Society, the American of Eplscopat gutted. The new hospital built in replacement, as well as the Syracuse-In-China hospital, were saved from destruction in this week's fire by the efliclency of the new fire apparatus which played such a forceful stream of water that the bamboo huts and Mght wood houses were Knocked over quickly and the path of the fire off, The fire menace in the old days was one of the worst features of Chungking as the hand apparatus was almost helpless in the crowded sections and many hundreds of people suffered heavy losses annually.
Industral, Developments at'imgmentao, the suburb across A paper mil i under construction
the river from Chungking where most of' the foreign business community fealdo, Most of the Local newspapers fave greed to, ute this local product Instead of foreign paper. There. are 14? firms in Szechuen publishing Drinted matier, Including "Ok neva: Dapers and 30° periodicals.
Pho. Chungking Waterworks. recantly gold over 1.00000, worth of Shares, measly belt of which. were ought by Me, TV, Soong andthe ther hal by te beniers and original Shareholders of thir enterprise.
'Plans are underway for' now wood-at refinery in. Chungking ud operations have begun in temporary Gtartere at Klangben, There Was por eon, inorense in wood-all ex: ports rom Wanshlen last month over the same month laet year, and an me crease over previous months of this year, Interest in wood-all is rising.
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