In a midnight fire on Thursday at Zee Ka Hong, off Jessfield Road near Kinnear Road, a Chinese boy and three Chinese girls were burned to death, while a Chinese woman was so badly burned about the body and limbs that she died later, The fire, which started at about 11 pin., destroyed a straw hut in which the woman and children were living. Firemen from Bubbling Well Station spent an hour and twenty minutes at the scene. They took the injured woman to the Lester Hospital in an ambulance. She died upon admission.
Four large Chinese houses were gutted by flames in Lane 417, Tongshan Road, yesterday morning. Hongkew firemen spent more than two hours in extinguishing this fire.
There were two false alarms in the Settlement yesterday morning (April Fool's Day), one being to Nanking and Fokien Roads and the other to North-Soochow Road in West Hongkew. Two further false alarms were recorded in the early afternoon, to Markham and Tonquin Roads corner, and to Gordon and Connaught Roads. Those responsible for turning in the alarms eluded capture.
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