The Archive · 1932

Fire Follows Explosion

Sept. 20.

Simultaneously with the explosion of a bomb thrown into the store, warning, in which the proprietor is threatened with death unless burns all the Japanese cods in hi possession, was served on the Tseng cloth store at 114 Rue Petit yesterday morning by the "Blood Sou Corps for the Extermination of Traitors." The explosion originated eye mage done to the was quickly pt out.

goods, no injuries were reported.

The explosion occurred at 11 a.m. 'A. young Chinese dressed in foreign lathes walked into the store, and waved the shop assistants and cus-Homers aside, I ately of having declared his intention, he produced a bomb and. threw it'into the middle of the store. After the smoke of the explosion had cleared, and the thrower had escaped, fire was noticed to be burning among. the heaps of clothes.

"The confusion in the store was shortly overcome when all the assistants attended the fire. After the normal situation was restored, letter, apparently left behind by the youth was found lying on a show-ease. It advises the proprietor, to burn all the Japanese goods in the store in 24 hours, as otherwise a. second bomb sill be thrown on the proprietor wherever he may hide himself, According to reports, the store had reeeeived previous warnings from the Cotton Cloth Trade Association, the National Salvation Fe-devotion, as, well as the "Blood Soul Corps," against the sale of Japanese merchandise.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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