Over Fifty Shops, Houses For Inquiries Gutted in Morning Blaze In Robison Road Four people, including a Chinese member of the Shanghai Municipal Fire Brigade, were injured yesterda morning during an outbreak of fire on Robison Road in which over 53 shops and Chinese houses were destroyed. The fire was the lai Outbreak seen in the city for si opium four alleged hire pounds contraband to a living western district time, almost all of the property in volved being razed to the ground, or gutted completely inside.
Originating in a Chinese shop at 701 Robison Road at 10.15 a.m. the blaze spread with alarming rapidity to adjoining property and, although the Fire Brigade arrived on the scene nutes later, they found that structures were a mass of Li Si ching, said to be a brother vt one ai the quartette se the court, more than ree pounds of the drug were found. Li was brought before Judge Liu in rst Spe District Court yes-writ of detention will be deld when he will be tried men. spending to urgent calls more he Ichang Road and Bubbling Well stations were despatched to the scene and a three hour against the Hames commenced.
Attacking the fire from all sides the firemen eventually brought the huge outbreak under control and saved houses and shops from complete destruction. At about 1.45 gines returned to their ving behind them charge ened ruins. toms broker-id to be a brother of Li Chung-alleged, has been loading opium cleverly hidden in Chinese medicine i to Shanghai. The mailed to Shanghai ihe Post Office, but it was always hidden in Chinese medicine packages.
The men detained are alle; ed to
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