The Archive · 1912

A Dangerous Toy

STRANGE INCIDENT IN THE FRENCH CONCESSION

From time to ti ince the close of the revolution, incidents have occurred showing that explosives of one kind or another are rather widely scattered about the district in various hands, and as recently as Sunday another of these vceurrences came under the notice of the police. This was the explosion of a small hand-grenade or miniature bomb, which was being used by children as a plaything, and it was the greatest good fortune that none of those in!

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