Conflagration Destroys 600 Squatter Homes warships Two Chinese, a male and a female, guns, with supplementary armament, were drowned during the early part and four aeroplanes with launching of yesterday morning in trying to catapults, and will have a speed of escape a conflagration which again 30 knots. destroyed the Wongkaloong straw-'Despite the desperate efforts of the hut settlement, off Vu Yuen Road, naval staffs, it is not believed that cast of Edinburgh Road. the Bismarck and the von Tirpitz "Six hundred huts were razed by 2 be completed before the end of the flames, which started at about 1940, 130 am. and gave Settlement and Germany ís also constructing two Chapei firemen a fight of well over aircraft-carriers and at least five three hours. Besides, two factories 10000-ton cruisers. At the same time were gutted by the fire, one of them she is turning out U-boats as far as yoing an iron foundry, possible to replace losses, directing so The victims of the situation both much energy to this that possibly she were drowned in a creek as they were has had to slow down the rate of trying {o escape the advance of the production of larger ships. flames in the dark.
Britain's Immense Programme At least 2000 persons were made homeless by the fire.
Great Britain has five 35,000-ton ly, George V, Prince of Wales, battleships nearing completion, nae-
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