by SPB.
A two-alarm fice in 'Tsangming Road was the chief activity of the [Shanghai Fire Brigade on March 5, the day on the whole being quiet, The blaze took place immediately to the north of the Post Office, in an farce visited several times by' fre during the past few weeks, an is was an hour before it was brought Under control, "The fire was reported by a watehtower at 707 pom three machines and two others from Central Station fom Hongkew Station responding
{urning out soon afterwards, " Bight Chinese shops got well alight. and, dvo to. the narrow alleyway behind, Chinese houses also caught of fire. The firemen stopped the fie from spreading any further to the south, the shops and houses men-joned being badly damaged, ciety their upper storeys, before the flames were extinguished, the bridge, Det-Inspr. Robinson Hated. A verdict of death due to Stab wounds was returned.
Nive Chinese died from shrapnel wounds on February 20 when the Japanese resumed. their attack on the Chinese following the rejection, bythe Chinese authorities, of the uitinatum delivered by Mr. Murai, the Japanese Consul-General, and Gen, Uyeda, commander of the Sapanese troops, 'A-shell from Chapei fell and exploded on a boat on the Soochow. Greek on February 18, killing a Chinese on board. "Two days afterwards, an eight-inch shell struck a trouse 'a: 127 Cunningham Road and Yilling a mother and 8
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