Shanghai, Nov. 26 DHE Johnson Garden and Stadium Ballroom, one of the largest and best known of the "badlands" night spots, was destroyed early yesterday afternoon in a fire which also razed a colony of straw huts and gutted a Chinese factory, A small girl was burned to! death, The flames originated in the. squatters" settlement. ime mediately cast of the dancing-gambling-and-opium centre, well within a lane running westwards from Yenping Road a half block south of Connaught Road. Although a strong wind fanned the fire, the Settlement Brigade succeeded in limiting its spread west of the Johnson Garden and thus saved a number of flimsy Chinese houses and sheds between the amusement centre and Jessfield Road.
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