After receiving a number of threatening letters demanding the sum of $100,000, a wealthy Chinese 1 in Bubbling Well. district received a few days ago a loiter ae-companied by @ parcel containing a Mills bomb, which fortunately did not explode. The intended victim Zung Ling-sung, of 239 Bubbling Well Road. "Some while ago he was appointed "Governor of the Manchurian Army.
Tt appears that on February 12 fand 18, Mr. Zung received two letters fro the "Blood and Tron demanding $100,000. He was told to send the money to a place near the West Gate, The letters were disregarded and no remade to the police about The receiver thought, about the matter until the fant when two men visited hhis home at 6 p.m. and handed a letter and a parcel to Mr. Zung's watchman with instructions that they should be given to hit master when came home. The parcel, they suid, contained medicine for' Mr. Zeng. When Mr. Zung returned home at 9.30 p.m. he read the letter, which demanded this time that the money should be sent to a house in Chapei. Being dubious about the reel, Mr. Zung left the paper in. tact and gave instructions that it should be saturated in water.
11 o'clock in the evening Mr.
x's watchman went to the Bub:
ig Well station to report that his [master had received a bomb and a threatening letter. When Det.-Sgt Telfer arrived at the house he found the parcel in a garbage tin filled with water. "He took it out and secing through the paper that it was 'a bomb, carefully opened it.
a bomb of the Mills type, generally used by the Chinese army. Fortunately the blackmailers were too frightened, or too ignorant know how, to'draw the pin. The letters and bomb were removed to the police station, No arrests have so far been made.
In addition to the above matters, which are only briefly touched upon in this review, the report contains detailed accounts of the Municipal Schools, the report of the Child Labour Commission, together with Dame Adelaide Anderson's Memo-
Mr, Vu Yacching, Chairman of! the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and Huipan of the Shanghai Specisl Municipality, left for Peking on Sararday night. jand the fof factory mary of exten. sion negotiations, the Omnibus Service agreement, and many other matters of Municipal interest,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.