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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1926.

YAUMATI BLAZE.

CHINESE TENEMENT HOUSES GUTTED.

CRACKER STORES INVOLVED..

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TAKING HOSTAGES.

A NEW PHASE OF CHINESE PIRACY.

HOME PAPER'S VIEWS.

A large block of property situated

The fate of the China Naviga at the corner of Temple street and tlon steamer "Sunning" marka Wing Sang Lane, Yaumati, was in the beginning of a new phase of volved in a disastrous fire which Chinese piracy, and one that is broke out about 8:46 p.m. yesterday very unwelcome not only to mer and had assumed alarming propor-/

chants, but to everybody connect: tlons before the alarm was given toed with trade in the Far East. says the Journal of Commerce." the Fire Brigade... ""

Flames were bursting from theherto piracy in China has lower, floors by the time that the been regarded as a perfectly Brigalle arrived within a minute of legitimate profession, just as it the alarm having been given. The was by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and, generally speaking, fire" had its strongest hold in two cracker stores which provided food they conducted their operations in e remarkably gentlemanly for the flames and enabled them to

manner. Admitted, they strip. reach the upper storeys in astonish

ped their victims of everything ingly, quick tims. These consisted of the slightest value, but as a of tenements from which families could be seen making a buried exit less a resistance was made. The rule they offered no violence un- from the back.

It is thought that all the tenants deliberate firing of a ship with were warned in time and were able some of her people still on board, and the carrying away of host- to get on safety. The block in ques-ages, is quite a new phase and tion extends along Wing Sang Lane shows that the old ethics are dis- for some considerable distance and appearing, and the general law the back part being unaffected, lessness of the country is having there were numerous venues of its effect. This is only the be

ginning, so that we must expect The noise of the three engines things to go from bad to worse turning out and the lurid glare unless we can offer adequate pro- from the neighbourhood of the tection to the British. lives and Yaumati police station (the block property on the Chinese water- involved is situate between the ways...

The Navy are doing all station and the main road) drew that they can to trace the mis- hundreds of people to the scene increants, but it is admitted as a cluding many Europeans. From colossally difficult job, while even Temple street, it appeared that the with the best intentions, our whole of the block of property was naval force in the East is great- involved and would be guttedly handicapped by having to

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Within half an hour of the Bri- await instructions from home. gade's arrival the flames had reach-Otherwise we should hear of ed the upper floors and the interier more effective work being done became a raging inferno when part to stop these outrages.

of the roof fell in with a crash. Working from points of vantage all round the building, however, the brigade confined the flames to the Pportion of the block situate nearest to Temple street, Hoses were brought to bear from the street and adjoining buildings, a good pressure of water being available. After two hours' work, the Brigade had LIST OF SHIPS EXPECTED TO BE IN WIRELESS

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In addition to the two cracker stores," three tenements situate above were gutted and another MARINE damaged. Considering the inflam- mable nature of the contents and the oldness of the building, the Brigade accomplished a difficult tash in a most creditable manner.

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One suspects that the initials G. W. K." betray Professor Keeton na the reviewer of Rodney Gilbert's The November.issue of "Drawing "What's Wrong With China." One & Design" may at once be classed may not see eye to eye with Mr. in this category. Handsomely pro Keeton, but he has undoubtedly duced and profusely illustrated, tackled a by-no-means easy-task this is a journal which should find with much courage, and care, and a permanent place in every artist's for this reason alone one trusts library Rowlandson and Ethel- that we shall see more of his criti bart White are dealt with at some ques in future volumes of this igur considerable length, whilst an article by Mrs, Arundell Eadaila on the influence of the Barouque in England, shows the author to be a student of no mean merit.

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Those who follow the law re falls to disclose his name, other wise one would have liked, to have ports in the Home napars will not said a word by way of congratula fail to be interested in Mr. Van tion upon the production of the Bergen's short treatise on the Journal, the skill with which its "One-Man Company whilst Mr

H. K. Woo'a contribution dealing contants have been selected, and with the difficulty of authenticated the general "make-up" of this highly interesting contribution to contemporary legal lore.

In little more than one hundred pages we have a host of articles dealing with such contrasting sub- Jecta as Extraterritoriality, Chinese marriages, Fascism and the Origin and Development of Japanese Law, not to mention a well-reasoned article by Professor G. W. Keston on Earl Macartney's Embassy to Peking.

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