A Chinese house was gutted and two neighbouring houses were damaged by fire at 824 p.m. on Jan, 28 in Lane No, 477, Chingchow Road, The houses involved were Nos, 74, 76, and 78. Machines from the Yanglszepoo Fire Station responded to the alarm /and had the fire under control within little over an hour, In the after~ noon, machines from the Central Fire Station turned out to tackle a Ore a book store at 220 Nanking Toad, Only some sawdust and coal were found alight in the boiler room at the premises and it was easily extingulshfed with buckets of water,
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