The Archive · 1940

Many Other Calls

Throughout the morning, Settlement fire fighters were kept busy, although the other outbreaks were of a minor ture. At 1L49 asin. engines wore summoned to 9 Chinese medicine shop.

'446 Seward "Road, where they: found a quantity of herbs ina. small ied on the roof alight. The flames fore put out in a matter of minutes, One minute later, at 11.50 am, a fre was reported from the Dah Lay Dye factory at Lane 1080, House 91, Mapal Road, where a quantity' of thread had caught fire. Here too, the attendance of the fire brigade was only required for several minutes. At 4 pam, an alarm was received from the King Sing Paper Mill at Lane 1095, House 25, Chenglu Road, where waste paper was found to be alight.

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