The conflagration, the origin of which is still a mystery, completely destroyed the large studios and work shops of the Chinese motion picture feoncern which had moved out of the: premises when hostilities broke out 1097. The complex consists of a umber of foreign-style buildings and wooden huts and is understood to have been. used for the storing of medical supplies for a military hospital near by. ever since the Japanese foceupied that area.
Additional machines from the Nan~ tao and Chapel fire brigades arrived jon the scene about one and a half hours after the fire was frst reported, but departed soon afterwards) when they realized that no water was available to combat the blaze.
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