Nanking, Jan. 2. r the second time in as many fire broke out in the Soviet compound here this afternoon.
Flames were seen licking the counseller's house, near the main building mea in a fire-hour fire yesterday, at 330 o'clock but subsided later without causing much damage. Both fires were of mysterious origin as the compound is presumably abandoned and vacant. The gates have been sealed by the Japanese authorities after repeated efforts to obtain access to the buildings failed. Both the front and the rear gates to the compound were found locked and barred and calls brought no response.
According to observation from the outside, documents and other papers appear to have been burned in the back garden.
Special details of Japanese consular police gore dispatched to the neighborhood of the compound to strengthen the military guard already posted there—Domei.
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