The general plan of procedure is ce-operation with various bodies and the compilation of information and its presentation in the best quarters. The U.S. Government authorities in Shanghai are to be kept informed and their advice and ce-operation sought, but these relations are to be entirely unofficial and the Committee of General Relations reserves the right to state its own case.
A Chinese woman broke a leg at about noon yesterday jumping from a burning building in the course of a disastrous fre in Lane 471, Sinza Road. She was taken to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in a Fire Brigade ambulance.
The flames affected a Chinese brush factory and adjoining buildings. One house was badly damaged and three were slightly involved. The alarm reached the Fire Brigade at 1135 am, and the firemen spent two hours in extinguishing the flames. Hundreds of Chinese in the congested neighbourhood: watched the firemen work.
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