Canton, Oct, 20, Six hundred and fifty occupant of tea houses built out over the river at Wuchow were" burned ta [death as the result of a fire which started at 3 o'clock on Friday, afternoon, The cause of the fire has nob yet been determined—Reuter, Hongkong, Oct, 20.
A message from Wuchow states that 40 Chinese boat people are missing and are believed to have been either burned to death or drowned. The fire which broke out in a floating restaurant on the jerside spread rapidly to other craft and 30 junks and sampans were destroyed in the conflagra tion.
Hundreds jumped from the blaze ing boats and swam ashore or w picked up by the police and fice
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