Roadside Show Broken Up by Explosion: Fourteen Hurt Fourleon persons—twelve men and two women—were injured April 19 at 380. pin. in an explosion which occurred on a vacant Tot off North Chekiang Road among 'a crowd of sixty persons who were Watching a Chinese showman put a monkey through its repertoire on a slick. Attracted by the sound of the explosion, police called an ambulance to the scene, and the injured were sent to hospital. All but one were released after their wounds, which proved to be of a minor nature such fs bruises of the face and arms, ley wounds and lacerations, ete,, had been dressed, Complete mystery shrouds the cause of the explosion, not one of the wounded being able to tell what hit him. The show they were watehing was one of those commonly seen on vacant lots these days, and there was nothing about it to excite suspldon. Police were reported to be completely mystified last night, after all the injured had been ques: toned, and a thorough search had Been made of the scene of the explosion, Ten of the injured were sent to St. Luke's Hospital while two women and two children were taken to the Shanghai Sanitarium and Clinic, As none of the wounds was very serious, fall but one were released later in the fatternoon. The only one detained was suffering from lacerations of the forehead.
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