London, Sept. 18.
Prince Chichibu left London to-
The conflagration calls began at 8.06 p.m, when the Yangtszepoo Station turned out for a blaze at the Ewo cotton mills. The damage was confined to machinery hurt by flames and the bomb discharged in the scutching room on the first floor and portion of the roof wrecked at the impact point.
At 8.35 came the call for what was to be an epic turn-out of a hectic night for the fire-fighters. The special squad under Assistant Station Officer R. Somers headed for Hongkew. Fourteen regulars, volunteers and Chinese formed the crew. What followed is best told by one of the men. "Hell seemed to break Iccse," he declared, "as we tore down the Bund, over Garden Bridge and into the pitch darkness of Broadway. The crash of the gun-fire was very nearly deafening and the air was splitting with tracers. Three times Japanese patrols tried to stop, us. They must have thought us lunatics to be running that gauntlet.
"The nightmare journey lasted for about a mile and then we were com> pletely stopped by dangling high tension wires and a party of Japanese who most emphatically told us to clear out of the danger zone. Somers went on to investigate. The spot seemed to be in the vicinity of the N.Y.K. wharf near the end bend in Broadway. The fire was nothing at all. Nothing more, it seemed, than the embers of where a bomb had burst day for Southampton where he will embark on the Empress of Britain for harmlessly to property.
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