St. Xavier's Scene of Vivid "Flying Honeymoon" Couple Night Conflagration at Hungjao Igniting in some undetermined manner, a spectacular fire on October 15 threatened the lives of many pupils and the destruction of St. Francis Xavier's Catholic College at 23 Nanzing Road, near Boone Road int the Hongkew district.
The blaze was discovered shortly after 10 o'clock and by the time the Fire Department arrived on. the scone the whole upper dormitory and laboratory were in flames, so quick-"did "the conflagration spread. Under tHe direction of the" ey. Brother Paust of the Marist Fathers, the pupils were lead. to safety white seven engines, four from Wonge ow Fire Station Central Station, turned [their fines on the blaze.
Directed by Captain J. G, Dyson, \Chief Officer, the firemen were euch cessful, after a stiff battle for nearly in confining the fire. the portion of the building and preventing it ing to adjacent, destroyed but. the. pupil to return to the lower part of the building £0
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