Huge losses were caused in the Eastern district by Saturday night's bombing, which kept the Fire Brigade regulars and volunteers on the go constantly for several hours, Since then, new fires have added to the damage.
At the Behr & Mathew storage plant, Yangtszepoo Road, an incendiary bomb caused the back portion of the building to be burnt out on Saturday. This property adjoins the Yangtszepoo Fire Station, which strangely escaped while Chinese houses on two sides of it were either gutted by fire or wrecked by bombs.
A bomb wrecked the roof and first floor of one of the buildings at the Ewo Cotton Mill, Yangtszepoo Road, and started a destructive fire. Six carding machines and eight yarn machines were badly damaged by the explosion and the flames. The bomb hit at about 8 o'clock and firemen, from Yangtszepoo Station, spent nearly two hours at the scene.
At 830 o'clock a row of foreign residences: known as Kungping Terrace, at Kungping Road and Broadway East, was virtually destroyed. Yesterday morning, again, a fre swept the same vicinity and caused further heavy damage.
Godowns and dwellings at the intersection f East Seward and Chaoufoong Roads were ignited at about 9.20 o'clock on Saturday evening. Nanyang Brothers' godown No, 5 was gutted and the godown at 136 Chaoufoong Road was water-dam-sgad, "Beginning at 1030, property at 690 East Seward Road started burning. A part of a block of Chinese houses was badly damaged, a large shed with contents and a two-storey building were destroyed.
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