The Archive · 1938

Nanking Road Fire

Three sun-blinds caught fire on the fifth floor of the Continental Em: torium in Nanking Road a: about 10 o'clock last night, and a quick turnout was made from Central Station. Crews working under Station Officer R. Wheildon extended a ladder to the floor involved, and ex: tinguished the flames,—Apparent the fire had been caused by a cigas rette being dropped from the seventl floor, New Destroyer to Be Launched Yokohama, June 26.

With the last rivet driven into her sleek, shining hull, the newest addition to the Japanese Navy, the destroyer Shiranui, lay at the Uraga Dockyards today waiting to be em-hued with life by the breaking of a bottle of sake, The Shiranui will slide down the ways on June 28 after a ceremony attended by high naval officers and leading citizens—Domei.

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