Shanghai, Nov. 8.
'Tung Wen College, Shanghat's only Japanese institution of higher learn= ing, was virtually razed last night by the' third and biggest incendiary Are there In five days. Thousands of re~ sidents "in all parts of the city ob-Served the tremendous glare' and smoke column sent up by the blaze Which raged on both sides of Hungia0 Road. at once from about 7 o'clock onwards, "A brisk wind sent sparks fying over a large area, causing hundreds of Chinese civilians to flee from huts and other small dwellings.
The fire started simultaneously in several of the college buildings, north and south of Hungjao Read, an area occupied by Chinese troops. The main buildings, north of the road, provided the tallest and most spec: ocular flames, the other halls having already been gutted In the two pre~ vious Ares. Unlike last week, the Shanghai Fire Brigade was not per~ ritted by the soldiers to fight the blaze and its engines had to return to their station. Two Chinese fire engines also went to the scene but they didn't "attempt to play water fon the flames, Groups of Chinese soldiers and police watched the fire develop and Assisted the occupants of neighbouring Chinese houses in evacuating with their dearest belongings. These residents presented a forlorn picture og they "camped" in a field opposite the main entrance to the college, surrounded by their boxes and Bundles and showered by sparks as well as rain. During the early part the ovening another Are, to the west of the Shanghai-Hungchow Railway tine, added a glare there to the already crimson sky.
Lightly-wounded Chinese soldiers were observed in the stream of humanity flowing along Hungiao Rod, some of them hobbling slowly bbecatise of leg injuries. The more seriously wounded were not expected to poss along the road until later during the night, Considerable shelling. and machinegun fire was heard from the "area immediately to the west and to the north of the burning college.
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