No fewer than nine fires took place in the International Settlement during: the Chinese New Year holidays, or at least since New Year's Eve.
By fur the most serious of these were the outbreaks ina Chinese dwelling house in Rangoon Road when six persons were burnt death and a similar number of others were reported to be missing. and the one in th Tai Hung Miao Temple in Nanking Road, between Fukien and Shanse Roads.
Tu response to a watch tower alarm, the Setth ement Fire Brigade hed to the Rangoon Road house, blase near Whashing Road, which they found to be see thi flames, The whole place but the firemen, with the determination and pluck, ly faced their task and for a moment until they had the conflagration well under control, Then suddenly came the alarming report that 12 persons were missing. Efforts were made to discover them, and, after a short search, the bodies of six persons were ' eventually found among the debris, Tt is believed that some of these had tried to escape and were eaughe in doing so, The others apparently were sleep at the time.
The Temple Fire Owing, it is believed to the tree mendous amount of paper money Goss paper) that had been offered to the gods of the Tai Hung Miao Temple in Nani sons were inthe building at the Lime and all tried to escape at the time through the mul the road, the ente to be about eight as a matter of fact, there is an inner wooden partition with a door just wide enough to permit two or three persons to pass, ata time, Ax it was the occasion of the New Year festivities the crowd was much larger than usual, They all made one dash towards the door and during the stampede number of worshippers were knocked down and trampled on. A number received minor in; but five, including a woman, were ins ured rather seriously. The temple fwvistanty used their own appliances, including a hose, but the fire ce tinued "until it was effectively suppressed by the Brigade, which had by time arrived on the scene. The temple was not serious damaged and worshippers were able to pray to the gods on the New Year's morning,
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