CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 316

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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almost in each instance

completely

contradiated by the writers themselves in

the same or a

Subsequent article, Thus :- In the description of the 14 Fire

in the China Mail of 15th August

the take it

easy manner of the

Police is the great subject of abuse_

yet at the same time it is allowed

that the fire bell

تو صريح الم

rung

in about

>

a minute after the alarm reached

the station and this considering

3 pair of store have to be Marked: A.

mounted to reach it does not show

Marked: 13.4.

much delay - Further

on it is stated

Marked G.1.

that the men word out

the

ground

z la 2.

#

15 minutes after the known outbreak

of the Fire_" and

as a considerable

R)

distance had to be traversed to ojer the alarms_ the men then to be turned

out of beds and dressed and then to

go.

down to the Fire itself -

ero avoir f

of alarmnity is apparent. Further

in this same article the writer says that the stoppage of the Fice was

owing to the wind blowing fromt the Harbor whilst the writer in

"

been

the Daily Tress of the same date says hard there

cive_stiving frond the Harbor the whole of Wyndham

any

"Street "&" would have been in ruins.

In the Dorily Tress of the 44. ".. it is started that a few minutes after the first appears

entire building

کر ہے۔ ہرا ہم کر کے دو نوع است

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of

the Fire the

completely in

1

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