Two Blazes Rage Near S.M.C.
Abattoir Apparently started by a shell. a stubborn. fire destroyed the better part of two blocks of Chinese houses in the Kashing Road area yesterday.
The Shanghai Fire Brigade was called) tò Sawgin Road, east of the Municipal Abattoir, shortly: after 7 o'clock yesterday morning. when the flames already had: made considerable headway. Thirty-nine ordinary Chinese houses, four shops and twelve country houses were destroyed or gutted, but owing to the fact that the region. has long since been abandoned by residents no-one was injured.
Firemen were summoned to another large blaze in an adjoining block yesterday afternoon.
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