Shortly before seven o'clock on Sunday evening those in Nanking Road near the Chekiang Road corner were surprised to hear the roar of an explosion at the top of the Wing On building, followed by a shower of glass splinters into the street below. The thoroughfare was more than usually crowded owing to the fact that the large attendance at the Sunday concert was just emerging into the street.
An eyewitness states that following the explosion he saw a column of white smoke rise from the top of the building. There was something in the nature of a panic in Nanking Road, everyone rushing for cover in the Sincere building and the adjacent small shops, while the Wing On management. closed the iron gates to the man nee, which were not re-opened about 7.15 p.m.
Investigations go to show that a bomb had been either thrown or deposited on the roof garden al had exploded when, fortunately, no one was near. The nature of the bomb has not yet been stated, but apparently it was of the usual ty making more noise than doing damage. of which latter, according to the management of Wing On's. very little indeed was done. No one was injured, and up to the time of going to press no arrests had been made.
It will be remembered that both Wing On and Sincere have been in receipt of threatening letters in the past and indeed some Chinese charged with sending such letters and being in possession of bombs or implements for making them have at different times been dealt with by the Mixed Court. It is be lieved that this outrage is bf a precisely similar nature. understood that the recent special] deputation from Nagasaki visited Shanghai in connexion with \the establishment of a fast N.Y.K. service between the two ports.
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