Building and Contents Destroyed: Lakh of Taels Damage A cotton waste factory and godown, adjacent to the modern Vu 'Tung' Mill, in Chapel, caught fire at some time during the early morning hours of Thursday and. was seen by the Sinza watchtower at 335 am. The watch reported the fire Penang Road" Penang. Rant borders the Soochow Creek, and when the Brigade arrived, they, despite the fact that the flames: were in Chapei, prepared to lay on, The Chapei Brigade were on the scene, but were inadequately eupplied" with equipment, insofar as their hose was of too amall a diameter while portions of it would not stand the strain. The Settlement firemen commandeered several boats, and after connecting four or five lengths of line, they. ferried them over the creek.
'A Fiat. 300-gallon pump worked from upstream, and the Leyland "gallon machine got into action down-fream, after the unavoidable delay of transporting lines over the creek.
There was a high wind and the flames had taken such a hold in the interim, that Captain Reed, in charge, decided to concentrate' on adjacent buildings, and confine the fire' to the single building. The policy was successful, and although the godown, which is about 75 ft. wide by 200 ft. in length, was gutted, the walls remained upright and the fire did not spread.
Burning sticks and a multitude' of sparks were raised high into the fir by the forced draught, and the high wind, and were blown into the Settlement, To prevent further spread on this side the larger Leyland pump stood by. Fortunately nething untoward occurred.
The building and its contents: are a total lost, the Chapei Brigade damping down all day. The loss is estimated at Tls. 100,000. The Shanghai "men -quitted "the scene at 'Tue formal opening of the Kuo Hua (Chinese National) Banking' Corporation took place last Friday.'
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