Mr. W. Charters, Third Officer of the Shanghai Fire Brigade, who was injured on Sunday afternoon when a wall collapsed at the conflagration in North Thibet Road, was yesterday resting comfortably in the Country Hospital. It is thought, however, that Mr. Charters, whose ankle was broken, will not be able to return to duty for several weeks. Both bones of the lower leg were fractured and it was necessary to put the ankle immediately in a plaster cast.
The fire, which was ascribed to the
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