RAPID SPREAD OF FIRES
FRANTIC EFFORTS TO SUPPRESS FLAMES (Received 26th October, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, 25th October. The Hankow correspondent of the British United Press says that fires are spreading very rapidly. The factory district is ablaze and Chinese are blowing up aerodromes and other military posts. The Wuchang district was set on fire, in which two British subjects and eight Americans are marooned. A similar outbreak occurred at Hanyang. Foreigners are frantically pumping water from the river in an endeavour to check the flames. The normal city supply is cut off. The Japanese continue to occupy Hankow without resistance.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 October 1938, Page 5
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