The Archive · 1938

Brush Factory on Fire Tu Sinza Road

Shanghai, Oct, 10.

A Chinese woman broke a leg at about noon yesterday jumping from a burning building in the course of 2 disastrous fire in Lane 471, Sinza Road. She was taken to St,' Blizabeth's Hospital in a Fire Brigade ambulance, The flames affected a Chinese brush factory and adjoining buildings. One house was badly damaged and three were slightly involved. The alarm reached the Fire Brigad at 11.35, a.m, and the firemen spent two "hours "in extinguishing the flames, Hundreds of Chinese in the congested neighbourhood, watched the firemen work,

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