The Archive · 1931

FOR HARBIN

Japanese Plane Showers Down Leaflets from Sky: Mysterious Bomb Throwing Fro Ove Owx Harbin, Sept. 26.

Harbin received another set of thrills" yesterday afternoon and] evening, but fortunately without any loss of life or great trouble of any kind, The first. thrill occurred about 450 pam. when a. Japanese military' aeroplane appeared over that the Consulate knew. nothing about the reasons of the aeroplane The excitement over the aeroplane visit was hardly over when at 7.30 p.m, a loud explosion was heard in the business centre of the town and there was a rush of people to find Jout what had happened. They had British residents of Hankow, at mass meeting held on Right, adopted & resolution protest-Ing againt the abolition of extra: territoriality. which the community Hankow believes is. shortly be abolished.

The resolution, which is being forwarded. tothe Foreign "Office, declares that such an action of. law from military interference," has been firmly established.

The full text of the resolution is as follows:

Gantiow expresses "its ing of British resi-

persistent the city, circling about and throwing gut "bundles of, leaflets printed Hittle time to do so as a second and 8° much louder explosion boomed Russian and Chinese calling upon the Yesidents to. keep. quiet and through the entire city, sounding' carry. on their business, asthe ike the firing of @ cannon. This ferrtorial rights at Haskow as Tapanese had mothing against the Jeaused many. people to hurry t0 from January 1, 1982. Ib draws their homes rather than make fur-attention to rectal instances "of peaceful, inhabitants but were ther investigations, Serious molestation of the persons Against. the military party.

The first bomb was n small one foreigners which re the imme:

The aeroplane dropped very low {thrown at a house belonging to the over the houses so that its number late outcome" of the abandonment ne. concessionary" status (52) could be quite distinctly read Japanese Society, the damage done being very small, plaster knocked Hankow and it 0 strongly of the with the naked eye. 'This is what Jort the wall and some broken win pinion, that if' the last protection was done last week at Kirin before dows—little worse than the damage afforded by the existence 9f Briuah the entry of the Japanese troops and done at the Chosen Bank a few days Surlsdiction is removed the dangers therefore the general opinion ix that troops will come to Harbin notwithlage, io" British life and Sri "The. second bomb was thrown. at standing the assurance of the Tokyo ithe Sino-Japanese Cultural Society Places on record a its contdered in Central fe conse government that they will not do £0. building and did considerable dampes, to the porch and the entrance pinion that i would be premature all but by the greatest of luck, relinquish extraterritorial Tights on the Japanese Const there was nobody but the house boy 0 long og the Tule. of law, free reply to his enquiry, was told in the building at the time. Both from military "Interference, has [Chinese and Jaranese police imme-not been firmly established, and ately rushed to the spot out no therefore earnestly requests His igns of the miscreant who threw

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