Japanese Textile Factory Burnt Out: Property Worth ¥.6,000,000 Destroyed Frou Our Own Connssronnenr.
Mukden, June 28.
'A huge fire which. destroyed the major part of a large textile factory occurred here on Friday night, the 21th, instant, on the outskirts of the Japanese Concession. The property concerned is the Mamma Kefon Kaisha, a Japanese joint stock enterprise engaged in, the production of blankets, cloth, ete., The blaze which started at about 7.30 in the evening was soon visible all over the city, and spectators from all sides began to wend their way in the direction of the smoke ud glare. On arriving in the compound, at the door of which Japanese soldiers had been posted, the factory outhouses and godowns and the huge weaving department Were geon to be blazing fiercely, huge clouds of yellow smoke being waited skywards by a gentle south wind, By 945 pam. most of the roofs had coll revealing timber uprights in tangled confusion suspended like flaming skeletons against an orange sky.
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