The Archive · 1924

Big Fire in Tientsin

Fla, 35,000 Worth of Native Cotton Destroyed Tientsin News Service, worth of native cotton wis Journ ity' at. the. northwest goodeyard during the heavy gale yester.

next to the ex-Austrian Cunees: sion between the. tral Stati tent of 30 thousand bales belonging to native dealers hag been stored there for the past fow days, having beet brought down from interior points, The fire broke at about 7 p.m.

Tee side of the stacked up bales, and before the ex-Austrian Com cession brigade put it out 350 bales were destroyed, and manw more dasnaged. Tt is hold unfortunate that the fire did not stare on the windward side, for, with the fores -of the wind,' the entire' 20,000 "bales would "have burned: a

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