The Archive · 1937

Gem Shops on Fire

FOUR INJURED

hree Houses Damaged in Shanse Road Blaze Three Chinese men and one Chinese woman were burned about the face and limbs early yesterday morning when fire damaged three Chinese jewellery shops in Shanse. Road, near Canton Road.

The flames started shortly after (6 o'clock. Three shops were involved, Nos, 64, 66 and 68 Shanse Road, and one of these was badly damaged.' /Rhe four injured were taken to hospital in a Fire Brigade ambulance. They were not seriously burned.

Firemen from Central Station spent more than an hour at the scene, which they left at 7.30 a.m. Shortly' before 3 a.m, the same firemen had been called to another downtown fire, at the A.BC/ News Company, 391 Szechuen Road, near Nank A quantity of books and were damaged by the flames, w were extinguished in about an hour's time. No-one was injured,

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