Ctungking, Mar. 8, The two outstanding events of many months occurred this week-end, and were of particular interest to all of the foreign community and to very many Chinese. One was the fire in the Syracuse-in-China Hospital early on Saturday morning, and the other was the loss of the Ford trimotor plane on the Kweiyang-Yunnantul Yun, We have viewed the Hospital loss and have heard much of the loss of the plane, On Saturday morning at about 6:39 o'clock, some of the nurses saw smoke rising from the root of the hospital building and screamed. The servant staff in the hospital was busy with morning duties, and the day nurses were just taking over from the night shitt, They did not believe anything was wrong snd thought the alarm was a false one. About the same time a gateman for a. mission compound nearby saw it and raised the alarm, Mr. MeCurdy was the man on the spot, the man who sent in the alarm for the fire bridge, who reported to the police station, and who commanded the rescue squad,
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