CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888 — Page 171

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Street at Swatow that Sik Run, Sab Constant Magistrate, proceed with troops to the

but that doing

Rescue,

large quantities of

Teig shops,

to a

to

Kerosene

stored in the neighbouring high wind, & the dry state of the materials

the fire

until one

was not extinguished

o'clock.

morning of the 4th, over

between 7 d

168

A 8 o'clock on

the evening of the 1917, November last the Hongkong bunton passenger steamer Wahyoung" caught fire at Sha ko artride the Bogne to the bursting of ce owning

Kerosene lamp in

the

passenger's quarters, that the

the

four

ď

entire ship

that of

wa-s

consumed,

than

600

passengers

board

er

hundred buildings in all

being

consumed.

the Thus, Chao, &

tastai also made

in similar

terms.

Je tai,

Chia

a

Report

was also

A Report received from Tao-ting Shông Acting Brigadier General at Yung Chiang stating that

between

wor

on

the crew

including the

seven

some

to eight hundred

souls seventy to eighty

soned by the soldiers the forts, the

were

& sailors in

rest being burned of drowned.

On receipt of

a

telegram at 9 or clock next

morning

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