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29. The Sino-Japanese conflict caused the evacuation of British women and children from Shanghai on 14/8/1937. Refugees included 17 wives and 19 children of Officers of the Shanghai Fire Brigade. Representatives of the Brigade met the ships on which they arrived and were able to render assistance by accommodating some of the women and children in officers' quarters at the various Stations, and the remainder in a vacant suite of European quarters at Eastern Fire Station. The women and children returned to Shanghai in October and November, 1937. The Chief Officer in Shanghai, on behalf of the Shanghai Fire Brigade wrote to express the Brigade's sincere thanks for the services rendered.
T. H. KING,
Chief Officer, Fire Brigade.
1938.