Shanghai had two fires, both, small, yesterday morning.
At 9.15 o'clock a Customs motorboat moored at the foot of Foochow Road started emitting clouds of; smoke—tar material and a cooking [stove in the vessel were responsible for the fire. Luckily the Harbour Fire Brigade was close by, and Harbour firemen quickly extinguished the flames.
The second fire was at 11.45 o'clock.
A motor-car was alight from a backfire, in the Custom-House compound. Persons in the compound extinguished the flames even before the arrival of fire-engines. The damage to the car was trivial.
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