Second in Two Days in Sealed Nanking Premises Nanking, Jan. 2.
For the second time in as many days, fire broke out in the Soviet Embassy compound here this after-
Flames were seen licking the coun seller's house, near the main building gulled ina fire-hour fre yesterday, 'MI 330 o'clock but subsided later without causing much damage. Both fires were of mysterious origin as the compound is presumably abandoned and vacant. The. gates have been sealed by the Japanese authorities afer repeated efforts to obtain access to the buildings failed, Both the front and the rear gates to the com-ound were found locked and barred and calls brought no response.
According to observation from the outside, documents and other papers appear' to have been burned in the back garden.
Special details of Japanese consular police were dispatched to the neighborhood of the compound to strengthen the military guard already posted there—Domei
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