A house, at Ward and Dalny Roads, partly occupied by a German emigrant for rubber manufacture, was damaged by fire yesterday afternoon, The flames were retorted at 1030 o'clock and calls were dispatched for Settlement fire-engines and an ambulance, It was found that three persons had been injured in attempting to extinguish the flames and in fleeing from the house—a German emigrant, a Chinese woman and a small Chinese boy. They were taken to the General Hopital and the Shanghai Sanitarium Clinic, respectively. They had suffered burns about the hands, and abrasions.
The damage caused by the fire was not serious.
It is understood the establishment was under investigation by the Industrial Section of the Shanghai Municipal Council owing to certain conditions of storage.
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