Washington, Nov. 4.
Shanghai urgently needs supplies of ether and chloroform as present stocks are exhausted, the Department of Commerce announced to-day. The supply of iodine is depleted and the quantity of mercury, anti-gangrene compound, bone acid, quinine, chlorine solution, glycerin, cholera vaccines and strong antiseptics, is running low.—United Press.
In fires, believed to have been of incendiary origin, on Wednesday and Thursday, Tung Wen College, in Hungjao Road, a Japanese educational institution, was virtually destroyed. Two views of the damage are given above, the left graphically showing the burned out shell which remains.
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