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
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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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