Fire broke out in a factory foe making soldiers' uniforms Chapei, near Markham Road Bridge, on November 2 and it is esti-fast. 70 persons received injuries of various degrees, Seven machines from Chapei responded but it was some hours before they hag the fire under control. The vineial factory building, three supplementary, buildings "and 28 houses were partially destroyed.
The fire was caused: from a cigarette, it is believed, which set fcortton waste alight the main building. Before the flames were cen, they had got sevend control, Wrthin a short varied, the stair as cutoff and the employees most-women, who were, isolated above, tumped from windows. During the nie many were crushed on the its, the others receiving fractures bruises after they' jumped.
Flames Spread Rapidly The flames spread with alarming rapidity to the adjacent buildings and houses and the entire compound was in an uproar, People who managed to get from the factory scurried to their houses trying to remove their belongings and save their children, 'With the arrival of the first fire engines and a squad of pol certain amount of order was re-established and while the former battled with the flames, the latter called ambulances' and motor cars to remove the most seriously injured to hospital. About 50 persons received emergency treatment in a Chinese hospital in Chapel. Others Were removed to the Lester Hospital for Chinese, and the Paulun Hospital,
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