It took Yangtszepoo Station firemen more than two hours end a half y terday afternoon to extinguish' a fire raging in a row of Chinese shops and dwelling-houses in Lane 11, Yangtszepoo Read.
An alarm was received at the Station at 137 p.m, when the flames had already gained considerable headway. Before they had been sub-tined, two shops had been gutted, seven other shops and dwellings batily damaged, and two slightly damaged.
No-one was injured at the fire, al-
Chinese constables, one of whom wounded him slightly in one leg.|d Altogether some thirty shots were fired by the gunman and the police.
After the crime, raids were made by Headquarters detectives of the Special Homicide Squed, resuiting in the arrest of several men.
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