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(Reuter's General Service,);
LONDON, March 30: Crowded meetings in London warmly applaud ed Mr. Bevin who advocated acceptance of the. tramway and bus employers offer at a great victory.
As an outcome of a for hours attingat which Mr. Bevin urged the endorsement of the terms of the tram strike settlement, the Conference delegates of the Transport Workers' Union decide that the position would be explained to and a ballot taken to day
EXPERT CHESS,
NEW YORK, March 30. At the end of the tenth round of the chess tournament Dr. Lasker has 6 wins and losses, Alekhine-6 wins and 3 losses and Reti, Tartakower and Capablanca each has 5 wins and 4 losses,
HUGE SHANGHAI FIRE.
NEW PAPER BUILDING.
GUTTED
REMEN'S HEROIC EFFORTS.
Last week our Shanghai come spondent cabled that one of the worst fires that has ever occurred In Shanghal broke out in the Shanghai Times building at the Comer of Soochow and Museum Roads at 7.20 o'clock and complete ly putted the entire structure, con- suming the silk goods stored in the three upper floors and damaging beyond repair most of the ex pensive printing presses, and lino type machines on the ground floor, as well as destroying a new supply, Lof paper which had been just Thungaght in 28 27 TRAD
AROHL 81, 1924 日七十月二子甲大清早三十國声
PERILOUS STRUGGLE.
PICNIC PARTY'S NARROW ESCAPE.
GALE SINKS LAUNCH.
(Reuter's
Service!
BRUNSWICK, (GEORGIA), March 1975 Mreads and his wife, Princess Xenis of reece, who were the guests of Mrs Thompson, aughter of the former Ambassador Mr. Harvey,
row escape from drowning during a' gale In the dangerous Simon's Sound when a launch returning from Picnic Island sank 300 yards from.
the shore.
The party wearing lifebelts reached the shore a small dingby which was carried at the stern, after a perilous struggle,
HOME FOOTBALL.
*Shortly after midnight the bare walls of the building remained, though the heavy wooden beams obstinately burned on, while the ENGLISH CUP SEMI-FINALS. contents which had dropped to the bottom as successive floors gave
London, March 29-The semi- way were ultimately precipitat finals of the English Cup resulted ed to the ground finds. To as under: PANER oxygen sucked in below fed the Newcastle U. 2 Manchester C. o fire and it rose through the upper Aston Villa3 Burnley storeys.
THE FIRST WARNING: The first warning of fire care from Miss Lucille Douglas, Society reporter attached to the Shanghai Times, who was returning from the Linatype room at the rear of the buying and saw the flames burst down throu d the ceiling from the floor hove.
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RIFLE SHOOTING.
VOLUNTEERS DEFEAT
TAMAR”.
At Stonecutters yesterday the, Hongkong Volunteer Corps rifle team met and defeated the
Tamar representatives some what decisively by the comfortable margin of 48 points, after deduc tions had been made for the use of Important bearing on the cham open sights. The match had an pionship result since a victory for
office-boy dashed Rangers and the Brigade Partick T thin the minute, Queen's Pk. oo late to salvage | Airdrieonians For the flames, it Ayr U reports, bad Clyde- who godown above and Dundee From the . C. D. News nowato hand we learn that five firemen had already gained samog | Hamilton were overcome with smoke and hold when they burst through Hearts the pulmator had to be resorted to below. As a matter of fact the in order to bring them back to Soochow Road Fire Station, just consciousness, two of them being over the way not 30 yds. distant,
the ruins
on were not aware that anything was brought from stretchers by their comrades wrong until the telephone call One of the foreigners slipped came through.
Everyone set to hurriedly to from his post on the ladder just above Chief Officer Peit and fell save what he could and a few on to his shoulders and was records from the lower front carried down by his superior, who office were carried out, and even himself was later affected by, the after the arrival of the engines a smoke, but who returned in a few few files came to safety, but the minutes to direct the fire fighting smoke grew so thick that it was operations. Two of the Chinese, impossible.to see through it and though restored by the motor, had further permission to enter the to be taken to hospital where they building was refused. are doing nicely. DE BASTERN GARAGE AND LYCRUM Luckily the flames were confined The building was a blazing furnace within a few minutes after to the building in question, for discovery and flames shot through had the slightest assistance been all the windows in an olly mass, given them by the wind, they the "Tamer" would have meant a bafting the firemen and driving would have made short shrift of triangular contest between the them down from the extension the B.AT. building opposite on ladders placed alongside the fiery cavern. But they returned again, Haes in hand, only to retreat once more. Towers then had to be erected in the roadway and the high pressure jets run to the top, where a single man directed the backdraft sucking round behind Sergt. Kennedy 29. nozzle, lashed at the highest the burning structure and coming C.PO. Williams through the Sargt Clemon... point. It was a valiant struggle to the front and shortly after 9pm Eastern Garage nearly nined the PO, Lean..... It appeared as though the eyes of the men below not equipped P.O. Foggitt battle was done. However, with with maske. As far as the Sze E. RA. Wilkes... 28 renewed fury the flames burst out chuon Road Bridge the acrid, olly Capt. Quinlap......... again more intensely than ever and acid-laden smoke made it Tel. Wallan... 26 and great fears were entertained, almost impossible for the specta for the walls themselves The fors, who thronged to the scene, pag upright ladders had to be moved, get through. The Lyceum Theatre All used open sights back, for it seemed as if even from directly behind but separated by a and steel could not resist the heat of the raging fire. With an add tional motor adding its strength and with the application of an other line from Chapoo Road run all the way across the Chapoo Bridge and yet one more from a Messes of people crowded round distaut hydrant in Museum Road, near the building; but when some 300 yds: distant, everyone thought danger of falling walls threatened, that the Brigade must win But with the exception of the police the silk in the building burned and press representatives they were forced either over the Bridge
Museum Road, which is now undergoing extensive remodelling and the dry lumber and unfinished state of the walls being-recon- structed, would have made.proper food for the blaze. A very bad
T5 ft. alleyway, was not in the path of the flames. The entire force of coolles, chauffeurs and staff, at the Eastern Garage had a few anxious moments until the cars were all removed
like gasoline {HEKES A on to the lawn adjacent to the
THE ROOF FALLS
Althoug
Rowing Club. Another added
at this stage the danger lay in the fact that high flames seemed to have eaten them tension wires strung near by selves our it was but for a few might break and some one be
and a tremendous, gaa electrocuted, o
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glowing
burst out and the
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Tamar, Despatch and Volunteers.
The scores were follows:
H.MS. TAMAR.”
200 500 600 yds. yds. yds.
Total.
39.
Grand Total 680.
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