Thousands of Buildings Have Been Reduced to Ashes in Past Three Weeks Shanghai, Nov, 26.
Nantao's fires, which have raged for two weeks, were last night burning from the Chinese Bund to the West Gate district and apparently spreading further back into the "City" with nothing to stop their progress, Besides a half dozen large blazes, the chief of which seemed to be burning almost in the very centre of the former walled city, smaller fires could be seen over a wider ¢ront than ever before during the merciless destruction of the district, Oddly, flames were leaping among buildings already destroyed, lighting weirdly the ruins ff earl ice conflagrations, Tt seemed fas if the fire demon was seeking out the places he had somehow neglected during his Visis at the middle of the The damage wrought by the succession of fires can hardly be estimated, Of about 40,000 dwelling-houses fund shops in the formerly prosperous dlistriets, only slightly more than 2,000 were believed in Chinese circles yesterday {o have survived the contlagrations. Considered together, the fires so far have swept from Feng Ling Chino, off Route Ghisi, to Zia Zee Road, Zin Tu Road, Chu Meny Rod, SI'Sa Lal, Kiaoehangmino to South Railway Station, and _agsin from Huchunying to Loh Ka Pang, Shing Ka, Huang Kin Chu Road, Small West Gate, Small South Gate, Tungkadoo, Wang's Wharf, Great Wharf, Siao Ka Road, San Pa Lou and Sze Pa Lou areas, No estimate was available fast night as to how many schools, public build ings and industrial plants had been razed. Tt was reported, however, thatthe Chinese Tramway Ca. the French Waterworks. Kinousin Dock, the Tungkadoo Church of St. Francis Xavier and two educational institu: tons established by foreign missionaries remained intact,
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