Two Chinese, both men, died violent deaths in the International Shortly before 2 a.m., at 42 Avenue Road near Vu Ya Ching Road, the bed in which a man was sleeping caught fire and when the man Was removed he was dead. Fellow tenants extinguished the flames. The and thence to the Public Mortuary.
At 7 o'clock the roof of a partly demolished building at 14 New Tai Woo Ka, off Chemulpo Road, collapsed, killing a Chinese. Firemen from Yangtszepoo Station removed the roof debris, East Coast life-boatmen picking up a small boat at sea, took it in tow. The name showed that it had been washed from a ship that had sunk four days before. As the boat was drawn up on the shore out jumped a hungry black cat—the ship's mascot!
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