Nantao School Damaged in Night Blaze Considerable excitement was caused by a fire which menaced the dormitory of the Min Teh Girls Middle School, Chin Ching Read, Nantao, on August 19, Under the supervision of the headmistress, the girls, about fifteen number, marched out of the schoo!
orderly manner soon after the fire broke oUt.
Flames were first seen in the kitchen the rear part of the school and they oon spread {0 the classrooms. While several teachers, with the aid of Colles, rescued valuable books and Instruments, the headmistress ordered the girls to leave the dormitory.
'Several machines from the Nantao Fire Station turned out and the fire was put out in an hour. "One portion of the building. where the classrooms were, was destroyed. The dormitory was only slightly' damaged. the building, which is known as the Rucecourse Apartments. Permission had been granted to hold the drill there and the firemen were atiempling reach the roof of the structure wit the turntable when the top of the ladder seraped against the coping. breaking it and causing several pieces to fall. Mrs. Schneider, who' was watching the manceuvres from her apartment on the first floor, was struck in the face by one of the pieces. She was badly cut and one of her cheekbones was fractured.
'An ambulance' was sent to the scene from Sinza Station and Mrs. Schneider was taken to the Country Hospital. She is employed in the office of the Credit Foncier @'Extreme-Orient, and her husband is the head of' an importing and exporting frm at 1060. Avenue Edward Tue Beet and Multon Dealer's Association has sent a letter to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce requesting assistance In petitioning the SMC. to rescind the recent order issued by the PID. forbidding deal ers from extracting bone from beet and mutton in the Hongkew Market, extra expenses would be incurred in securing other accommodation for extracting bone.
Miss Hsieh Wan-ying, better known by her literary name as Ping Hsin, or lee Heart" arrived in Shanghai on August 20 from Nan-King. She was accompanied by her husband, Dr. Wu Wen-tao, who is professor of sociology at Yenching University. They are leaving for the United States where Dr. Wu will attend the 30th anniversary of the founding of Harvard University.
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