Settlement Brigade Assist In Fighting Blaze A huge and dangerous fire was started by Japanese bombers in the vicinity of the Central Mint, across the Soochow Creek from Ichang Road, at 420 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The Oriental Engineering Works, east of the Mint, was first ignited and later a fire started at the Lih Teh Bean Oil Mill, northeast of the Mint, Water Carriers Heroic Self Sacrifice A small water truck, supplying soldiers with drinking water, arrived at the Japanese front line near Dazang in the evening of October 19. In the seat were two corporals, the driver and his assistant. Greeted by soldiers, the men smiled, then sat still, When the soldiers, alarmed, tried to help the two men out, the latter collapsed. Both were dead.
The men, a Japanese military sockeemian said yesterday, ta none: ing the episode, were the way to Dazeng Instead of stopping to take care of their injuries, they went on.
"When their mission was completed, the two men died", the spokesman added, "In the evening, ihe unit whose water was paid for by such a high price, revenged the death of their comrades by capturing the Chinese positions," the offücer where seven or eight vegetable-oil tanks went up in bright flames and one of the main buildings was gutted.
The Shanghai Fire Brigade sent an engine from Ichang Road Station, close by, to a point across from the fire and laid hose over the creek with the help of a sampan. An intrepid little crew headed by Mr. R. G. Watkins, Fourth Officer of the Brigade, and Station Officer T. H. Vickers, crossed the stream and prevented the flames from spreading further. They Worked for nearly three hours to combat the fire and while they were at work Japanese shells kept bursting overhead. No-one was injured, however, Even after the firemen had left the scene, they were beset on their way back to) Ichang Road Station by the persistent bombardment from distant guns, the blinding flashes of shrapnel lighting' their way eeriely.
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