The residence of Dr. and Mrs. W.
E. O'Hara at 650 Great Western Road was badly damaged in a fire yesterday afternoon. Two machines from the Bubbling Well Station. proceeding to the scene in response to an alarm raised by a messenger. were prevented from functioning by Japhnese soldiers at about 5 p.m.
Occupying three mow of land. the residence was completed last year at a cost of $50,000, and, it is believed, was not insured. The house was vacated prior to the hostilities. although fittings and some furnishings were left in it. The locality is now under Japanese military occupation.
Calcutta, Nov. 23.
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, the famous Indian scientist who discovered the "heart beat" in trees, died to-day.
He would have been years old on November 30.—
Reuter.
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