A tragedy occurred at the staff quarters of the Dah Kong Cotton Mill in Haichow Road at 3 am yesterday when a Chinese woman worker was burnt to death in a bed Other workers attempted to, save her life, and extinguished the flames A Fire Brigade ambulance took the victim to the Lester Chinese Hobpital, where she was pronounced dead. The bed which had caught fire was virtually destroyed.
In a fire in Lane 563, Broadway East, shortly after 6 a.m. one Chinese house was gutted and five others were badly damaged. the first floors and roofs being partly consumed by the flames. Hongkew firemen extinguished the blaze in a little over an hour.
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