One male Chinese was hurt as he Jeaped out of a burning building as flames swept several Chinese dwell-Ings, small factories and a timber yard at the corner of Rockhill Avenue and Avenue Haig yesterday afternoon, He was taken fo St. Luke's No, 2 Hospital, suffering from con fusions to his body.
Six. engines from the Settlement Fire Brigade, under the command of Station officer R. H. Miles of the g0 Bubbling Well fire station, ed to the alarm. These were from Bubbling. Well, Sinza and Tchang Road_ stations." Two engines from the French Fire Brigade and two from the. Chinese Brigade also attended, Notwithstanding the inflammable material and the fast spreading of flames, firemen were able to bring he fire under control and then work to extinguish the blaze, This was done by 250 pin.
Damage to constructions was not considered extensive, as they were of the poorer class, but a number of unfortunates, however, were left
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.