Huge Blaze from Hongkew Creek to Wayside Area Not Equalled by 1932 Chapei Holocaust Shanghai, Aug. 22.
[INEQUALLED even by Chapei's grest conflagration of 1832, fire raged through Shangh eastern district Inst night from Hongkew Creek to Wayside. Flames were seen -to spring up in now places all yesterday afternoon and evening, and soon joined others to make the area a blazing inferno lutd. which it seemed that no human being could penetrate.
Competent observers, watching the spectacular scene from the roofs of high Settlanent buildings, were of the opinion that the fire was confined to the eastern and north-eastern bank of the winding Hongkew Creek, no spread being noted in the crowded districts on its other shore.
'These districts include Whangpoo Road and its Consulates, the Hongkew market, and the normally populous Japanese residential and shopping area around Woosung, 'Haining and Chapoo Roads. *"Priday's big blaze, in and around the Nanyang' Tobacco godowns on
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