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sera eae ease give toms relief next week, Blaze Razes the Great China Emporium Nankings Mar. 1.
Five hundred people were rendered aeatitute and homeless by' an early morning fire which raged for fully four. hours "and. Feduced the. entire bbuilaing of the Great China Emporlum-and the surrounding houses long Taiping Road to shes, The {otal toss was estimated st $1,000,000, The fire started at 330 o'clock in the morning tua pentchouso of the Emporium. Fenned by a strong wind, the blaze soon spread to the main Dullding and the adjoining Chung Terrace, Fire brigades were immediately ed in and no less than 300 firemen to the scene. They suc-Seeded In putting the flames under control only after three and halt fours' battle, "For atime, the pre-rises of the National Avitaion. Commission, on the opposite side of the street, was seriously threatened. No teuaites, fortunately, were Feported.
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