Unchecked fires kept on raging in Nantao and Pootung yesterday and last night, dotting the horizon with fitful glares and sending up billows of smoke. In the Native City the flames were burning towards the special refugee area bounded on the south by Fong Pang Road. but they had not reached the preserve at an early hour this morning.
In the Small East Gate district of Nantao, the fires were burning within a block of the Nantao Bund.
Lot far south of the French Concession boundary. Farther into th "City" the flames were blczi.g along whole rows of houses. The "offs of some of the taller buildings were torches visible for miles round.
Three fires were burning in Pootung: two somewhere behind the Wa Tung Wharf and the third in the vicinity of the China Merchants wharf, across from Yangtszepoo, The larier fire showed only faintly at midnight last night There was no indication that firemen had been called to fight any of the blazes.
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