1912-07-24 — Page 11

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH EXTRA.

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

HONG KOʻG, July 24, 1912:

THE FACTORY FIRE.

EIGHT GIRLS PERIS!!.

Router's

[Service to the "Telegraph."]

London, July 24, 3 10 a.m.

Received, 4 20.p.m.

Altogether eight perished in the celluloid factory fire in Moor Lane, London.

Fifteen girls were trapped on the top floor of a 'five-storey buile ding, and four were incinerated,

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LONDON DOCKS. EXTENSION SCHEMES.

London, July 24, 3.10 a.m: Received, 4.20 p.m:

In addition to the South Albert Dook Extension, the Port of Lon- don Authority has accepted tender amounting to £200,394 for deeponing the East India Docks, and also approved of a £240,000 scheme for berthing extension at Tilbury.

THE SUFFRAGISTS. MUSICAL LADY ARRESTED.

Londen, July 24, 3.10 a.m. Received 4.20 p.m.

Miss Ethel Smyth, Mus. Doc., the well-known composer, has beon arreste for complicity in

1 the aff sir at Núooham Park, the residence of the Right. Hon. Mr. Lewis Harcourt, in which two well-dressed women

were dis-

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three were killed by jumping a distance of 60 feet and falling on a skylight, while one died in hoovered by the night watchman, one being in possession of a No fire escapes were available. quantity of methylated spirits.

pital.