District Public School, headed the boys' candidates. Miss Margaret Edith Colter, right, led the Lancastrian candidates, Shanghai, Apr. 19, A lorry loaded with' bales of cotton" was the scene of a fire yesterday afternoon in Kiaochow Road, a short distance north of Singapore Road. Sixteen bales were damaged by the flames which were extinguished by Municipal firemen.
At midday a Chinese house Lane "630, "North Szechuen Road, caught fire, and an alarm was turned in by the Japanese Naval Landing Party. Hongkew firemen extinguished this blaze, in which the ground, first and second floors were badly damaged. No-one was injured. The Ione in question Tukong Road, 'a district hard hit by ast year's war.
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