Settlement Brigade Fights Flames at Toyoda Mill and "Windy Corner"
Chitral Sails Tomorrow Victoria and M. M. Ship Leave on Thursday Settlement firemen were called upon yesterday morning to battle flames at two points, north and west, near Municipal boundaries, where serious damage was done to Chinese and Japanese properties, One Chinese fireman was so severely affected by fumes at one of the fires that he had to be taken in an am-balance to the Police Hospital.
The first blaze started shortly after 6 o'clock in the Toyoda No. 1 Cotton Mill, 200 Jessfield Road, just west of the British defence perimeter in western Shanghai. This mill which figured prominently in the latter p: rt of last year's hostilities, is been occupied by Japanese idlers since the Japanese crossing of the Soochow Creek, west of Chunc Shen Road, last November. "The Chinese troops. before withdrawing from the mill set fire td it on November 9 last.
Members of the Shanghai Fire Brigade ogam turned out to the Toyoda mill at 6.16 o'clock yesterday morning in response to an alarm which said that a two-storey godown there was aflame. Three engine crews from the Bubbling Well Station went to the mill and worked there for two and a half hours. large quantity of cotton was destroyed and acrid fumes hampered the work of the firemen. One Chinese was affected by smoke and bad to be sent to hospital by am-balance.
None of the Japanese soldiers quartered at the mill were injured.
"Windy Corner" Hag Fire The other large fire occurred before daylight yesterday in a spacious Chinese dwelling-house at North Honan and Range Road: Shanghai's famous "Windy Corner. Central Station firemen were called to this locality at 250 am. The flames were burning on all three floors of the structure, and considerible damage was caused before they could be extinguished. The firemen spent nearly two hours at the scene. No-one was injured.
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