Five Chinese children wore in-Jured, three of them very seriously, When' a motor-car of the Chapel Fire Brigade travelling on an when a motor-car of the Chapei Fire Brigade travelling on an International Settlement road got out of control when returning from a fire The progress of the car was checked when it ran into a barber's shop, smashing the windows of the latter.
The car, boating Settlement licence number 10492, was coming back, from a fire. It was being driven Behind @ fire engine, whose bell was being rung. violently, and it "was followed by another fire-engine.
At 113 pin. it turned out Dixwell Road south into North 'Suechuen Road, and it was at this spot that the chauffeur apparently' ost control. The road here is in "rather a rough condition. Careering across the road, the car crashed into the group of five Chinese! children, hurling their bodies in all directions. They were sent to the Lester Chinese Hospital, where three of them were detained, the others being sent home after receiving medical attention.
'Machines of the Chapei Fire Brigade occasionally proceed along' Settlement Roads to reach fires in parts of Chinese territory _not Teadily accessible by roads under Chinese control,
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