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STORIES OF THE FIRE,

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Further details gathered in regard to the dirastrous fire at Kennedy Town which was reported in yeater day's Chino Mail show that in twenty two houses were destroyed while three Chinese were killed and burned and two are missing.

SINGAPORE...

Stephen Banow, a native of Liver. pool, was charged before Mr. J R. Wood this morning with having atowed away on board the N.Y...a

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Inspector Mcody waid defendant atowed away from Hongkong to Singapore on October 26, police at. Singapore relused to allow him to land, and he was brought back by the "Kitano Maru."

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NIGHT PROWLER.

KOWLOON SHOOTING

INCIDENT,

CONSTABLE WOUNDED.

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Chinese constable No, 412 was the victim of a shooting affair at Romuntin last night. He is now in hospital reee ving-treatment for a revolver wound in the cheat.

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The constable was one of a picket It is thought that the blaze began

of Indian and Chinese constables who ather in house in Belcher Street

are now being rent out every night which is used as a godown for the

under a European Sorgeant to patrol Defendent said he had worked on storing of sulphur or in the house next to it. A violent explosion oc ships from 1917 to 1931 and then the isolated districts in Kowloon,

The shooting, accurred on the curred in the godown just before 4,30 worked for some time in Canada An-Homuntib railway bridge at 7.30 p.m. a.tn. and so great was the force of it ally coming out to Manila from Newls constable who was walking a

the of little ahead

picket, that it blew out the party walls and York on an American ship. He

'carrying stopped did a deal of damage to the missed his ship at Manila and bought front and rear walls of the premises. passage to Hongkong. From hete rattan hand bag and announced bis Lumpe of burning sulphur landed on be stowed away to Bings, ore.

intention of examining the contents. the timber yard opposite and soon

As he was about to open the bag, the set it ablaze. The fire spread to the

suspect euddenly whipped out houses on both sides of the godown

a revolver from his girdle and fired and, labued by a strong wind from

pint blank as the constible. The bullet struck the constable on the the east, went westward along Bel- cher Street to the corner of Smithfield

left side of the chest just above the where it travelled along another

heart and lodged in the shoulder blade. The rest of the picket terrace of houses right down to the

fired kramline.

bico, but ch sed the assailant, and

He saveral shots alter apparently without any effect. mad: good bie escape.

The firemen were on the spot about ten minutes after the alarm was given at 4.31 a.. but they were bandicap ped at the ontest by a poor water preasure and until the fire-engines and the frefloat could be brought into action the flames made pretty good headway. It was 7.30a.m. before the blaze was really under control and it was found necessary to keep hoses playing on the smouldering timber. yard all night.

A remand i police custody was given until Monday.

UNLAWFUL ARMS.

Two Chinese wero sentenced by Mr. J. R. Wood this morning to three months' jail spiece for the unlawful possession of two Muveere and a Winchester pistol, respectively.

The first man, who was arrested on the Kowloon wharf, said he had only just arrived from the country and did not know local regulations. À man engaged him to carry the pistols.!

The oiber, a saloon boy on the "President Cleveland" said a friend in the US, A. aaled bim to take tle pistol to relatives at Maca, He also pleaded ignorance of the law.

As far as can be ascertained at present six of the houses that were destroyed in Smithfield were insured with Heung On Company, a company

M. Rakos zky, the Minister of the represented by Messrs Reiss and Co. bas insured two of the houses; the Interior, has ordere! a fresh registra- South British and the London, Liver- tion of all foreigners in Hungary with pool and Globe are interested to the a view to expelling those whose extent of $20,000 each and part of presence economically or politically is the risk is shared by the Sincere undesirable. Insurance Company.

DAMAGE GREAT...

The are originated in-No. 69,

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The constable was operated upon and the bullet extracted. He had a good night nod is expects I to recover.

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Holy Communion at Be.. Hylons: Matins Il a m. Responses: Ferial: Venite: Macfarrin (23); Pas: 118. Camidge (14th morning); Te Deum: Cakeley in ; Rapediet s Burnby) 18th morning) Anthem: "Grant ns Thy peace" Mendelsohn Hyons: 1: Litany (Icon)

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Belcher Street, ground floor, together the Guild to facilitate early work with the ground floors of Nos. 55 57, in the morning. He said that every- used as godowas for storage of salt-body ran downstairs on hearing the petre by Ya Hing Cheung and Cban first explosion and the smoke was very Kwok Co. of 44 Connaught Rosd dense on the stairs. All the black-Resors, Forii: Paxos: 132, 133, 134, Wes. Goods were insured with wood furniture in the Guild was Mesara Butterfield and Swire to the destroyed.. extent of $4,000 and the South British Co. for $10,000.

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Nanc Dimiitis: Wesley; Hymn* :* 109, 971 477.

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Holy Communiou 2,16 am. ·

Mr. Lani Cheuk, the owner of the Wo Hing Pork Stall, doing busines! in the ground floor of No. 4 Smithfield suffered a heavy lore Wesleyan Churc✨, Queen's Road,

bad over' by the fire. He

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Garrison Church Paride. Hymns 20 am. Divins Service a ̈ıl Naval nud and Chant, 657. Te Deum, F83, 92,

The numbers involved were 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 75 Belcher Street (all storeyed buildinge), mortly gutted; 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, $2,000 in cash in a trunk and Opposite Boyn“ N-val H-spital, Fanghai, Smithfield, gutted; 22 Catobiok Street, insisted on going back to get it! badly burnt; 1, 2, 3, Hau Wo Street, although the flames. were burning on woodwork slightly damaged; timber the first floor. A foki prevailed on yard No. 60 Belcher Street, tenants him not to take the risk and just 15 Wing Sing Cheung and Wang Tyo; then the second explosien took place' mostly teakwood, Chinn Fire and with the reult that all the fittings in pinewood stored, igaited by sparka the building came tumbling down. His concubine also lost about $1,000 from explosion.

The damage has not yet been ostim-worth of jewellery. ated, but as nearly all the ground floors were used as shops or godowns, the damage to goods in expected to exceed $200,000. In addition to this, there is the damage to the buildings.

CABUALTIES.

OTHER BIG FIRES.

Below are given particulars of other big fires in the West Point and The casualties (known so far) Kennedy Town-districte daring_the_ The name of the woman who fell is last few years Cheung Choy, aged 50 years. Specta-

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Six years ago tha timber yards in tors say she was following other involved in the present are. were mates across a plank over the lane destroyed, together with the adjoin- the backs of houses ing yards. The block of houses in in Smithfield and Belcher Street which this fire originated was just she Last her looting built then and the woodwork was Li Chuen, male, 81, of lat Floor, ignited Dr. Feares, the M. O. R. 50 Belcher Street. Reported miscollapsed in one of the houses while helping the firemen. The stono ing by daughter-in-law.

Loung Ha, female, 42, reported wall of the slaughter house was heated to such an extent that it cracked in missing

Small boy, missed by his parents.several places..

SEVERE EXPLOSIONS,

Late last night the Timber Yard was still smouldering and relays of twelve firemen hard at work.

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More recently, there was the Nam Mow Oil Godown fire, which gutted!

than half a block of

dezen houses on Belcher Street, just below Belcher's Fort. Then there The explosions were to severe that was the Kwong Hang Hing Rice Go- window-pases 100 fest sway were downs fire in which 37 lives were lost. broken. People in the streets ucme The rice was stored in the ground distance away felt the vibrations, doors of a block directly behind the Early yesterday morning, some of Nam Maw Oil Godowns, on the those rendered homeless, slept outside Kenu dy Town Proje The upper the new Sanitary Department,'s quar floors were used as tenements, and ters at the foot of Belcher's Fort, the tenants, in a panic, stampeded to Some found a temporary home in the the last hours of the blook with the Tai Fak Lao, restaurant, not farréeult that the stairs collapsed; and

out off the only chance of ascapa. Away.

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2. Subject: The Inner Meaning of the Peppy Div Collection." Praicher: Rev. C. Clouston Porri. R. C. F. 6 p.m. Divine Service. Hymos, 18 (47.66, 4, 277. Subjot "An Old Testament Goarol." Preacher: Rev. T. W. Scholes, M.A. 7.p.m. Holy Communion. Friday, Fv.m. Chair Practice, Wesleyan ailors and Soldiers' Rome,

Arsenal Street, Sanday 8.15 p.m. Chaplain's Moeting and Social Hour, Address by Mr. Kirk. Wednesday, 8.15 p.m. Darotional Meeting. Sub et-Experience and Asuradec." Speaker, the Chaplatz,

Union Cherah, Kennedy Road. Sunday, November 19th 1937.

Morning Service, at 11 ..

Waging; King Goorge's Mensaje to Subject: "Tos oule Warfare Woith the Free Church. Evening Ser- vien at 8 p.m. Commanion, Upen til Christians, at 7 s.m. Preschor at both Bervices: Rs. J Kirk Maconacbio. San Jay Sohol at 3 30 p.m. Christian Endeavour Meeting on Vriday at 8.30 p.m. Oniversity Students' Services

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Sauday, November 12th-1972 st. 7.30 p.m. Hymns: 49" Fibst the good fight! with il thy migh

3.3 Lord of our Life and God of our 265 Jest si Im, without one plea Salvation. Salvati. Rev. E. W. L Martin. M.A.,

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SPIDER AND THE FLY.

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THE NEW VERSION OF AN OLD STORY.

incapable of retaliation, or oven aelf defence. The modus one

operandi adopted by the fly is as follows: A | rapid landing on the spider's back is effected; in a quick succession of life A correspondent writes to The each leg is removed at the point of Observer The idea of a spider junction with the body, and then, falling a victim to dy is a little with the fly's powerful mandibles outside ordinary experience, and yet embedded in his back with the Subject: The Power of the Mind I have observed such su occurrencedy's legs straddling over him not merely ones but twice, both and making nactul substitutes for his occasions being the result of deliberate

(Warden of St. Stephen's College 1

Bond.

As the front part of the houses in Not many months ago, five oror the Body" the esstem side of Belcher. Street Tobacco Godowns, near the Tai Ping wae alight first, a number of inmates Theatre wire gutted. A curious Fiest Church of Christ. Bolentist. could not go down the stairs. They laoidence about these fires is that macDonsell Read. Below Bowen intention and not accident. Inhabit, he is marched off to some made their way to the roofs an they all originated daring the night. crossed to the houses in Smith Going back further, one recalls the Fould by means of planke. Afire in the Gas On's Coal spectator avers that there was godown about fifteen years ago quite a mumber up there at the time sad the big fie in Howard's of the second explosion and after the Godown (now the Tai Ping Theatre)] shock they had disappeared People over twenty years ago, konta

in bed in Catchick Street wore thrown Tastis part of the city, the Nam

to the floor and a number of fakis Pak. Honge and all their godown making their way down the stairs of space. Millions of dollars of valuable

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Tram St.tion. Sunday, 11.15 a.m. Wednesday, 5.45 p.m.

SECRETARIES OR CLUBS AND

OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

ing the houses of man in West Africa insectivorous larder, there to awa is a wall spider of moderate si cumption at the leisure of wis say two inches leg-span with a body conqueror. Can any one of your readers tell me what particular By of about three quarters of an inch inhis is p

FOOTBALL

KOWLOON ▼ “AMBROSE;

length-grey in colour and very flat in build. There is a second denizea of those parts in the form of a By. waap-like in shape a little less than a warp in sixe, and possessing a body coloured a lustrousbus, with legs of coming meetings, lectures and is similar to the Mason Bee, but in the Tia In Teahouse, No. 22 Catohick merchandis is stored in godowns ALL preliminary notices of forth crange. In general colouring this fly Street, were thrown to the bottom, in which the staffs live. With entertainments, sent for insertion in shape and size he is not.

The Butcher's (Master's) Guild is the exception of the Wharf and the news columns of the China Mail,The fly has discovered-Heaven loon in the let Division to-day In the 2nd Floor of No, to Beloter Godown Co's and the China Prori-

(as announced in May, and June of Street. Me. Au Yeung, Kingalls, dent Co.'s godowns, which store non are charged for at the rate of $1 each slond knows how much instinctive against the "Ambrose," on Navy H. managing partner of the Tang Wing hazardous goods, there is enhance last year) providing that they do not antipathy had to be overcome in the wund, Happy Valler-Woodman Tai Beef Stall, who supply the Peak of a big blaze at any time, c. Some of occupy more than four lines. In proces-that this particular type of Wheeler, Mason Morrison, Hotel, says he only got out in the the godowns of the Standard Oil Co. future if this space is exceeded they spider is not so terrifying Pass, Clemo, Hall, R. J Brown

if lacked with courage is quite A. Danean, pick of those. It is usual for master and the Asiatic Petroleum Co. am will be placed in the advertising appearances anggest and furthermore Townsent, and Coombs.)

columns at the prevalling rates. butabers to spend, the night is also in this locality,

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