The first Chinese bombs, used probably about the time of the Revolution, were contact bombs. A time bomb had either a clock or other mechanical arrangement to set it off at a prearranged time. The bomb which exploded on Wednesday had a method of timing, no one knows just what, for these intFicate pieces were not discovered.
In recent years there is but a single instance of clock bombs being utilized by Chinese, and they did not go off, for the miscreant was caught before he had delivered his product. A boxful of these were confiscated, Later bombs were made 0 that the missile, went off when bits of. iron broke the. fulminating liquid in thin glass tube, This bomb was neither' type, he thought. It had been timed to go off, as some say at 11.20 am. but the carrier was a minute late jin delivery, perhaps because the carrier took a round about way of arriving at his destination, perhaps he was held up by traffic delays. At any rate the one minute probably saved a mumber of lives.
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