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Japanese Naval Landing Party to post Steel-helmeted sentries along The Bund and to conduct searches of Chinese vehicles and pedestrians simultaneously with the police searches.
At exactly 6 o'clock two small bombs of the "Mills" type were smashed against the wall of the Yokohama Specie Bank, in whose building the offices of the Japanese-sponsored Chinese Civic Association are situated. One of the missiles exploded, injuring several Chinese, one fatally. The dying man was later picked up near the former City Government Ferry pontoon, foot, of Peking Road, where another bomb was exploded at 6 o'clock, He had been so terribly mangled that nothing could be done to save his life, and he died almost instantly.
The Yokohama Specie Bank Building was not badly damaged.
The hand-grenade thrown at the ferry pontoon, which for weeks past has housed a post of the Japanese Military Police, again injured some Chinese pedestrians. The explosion caused general consternation at the jetty, and on the ferry pontoon soldi-frs manned a machine-gun and took up positions with levelled rifles. Sentries with fixed bayonets were posted on the Bund foreshore in front of the former "Floating Restaurant." The Japanese seized. the Chinese driver of a truck which was passing at the time and kept him at the ferry pontoon post.
Two More Blasts at-6 am.
At 6 o'clock also, another bomb was exploded in the compound of the Shanghai Land Investment Company, 100 Jinkee Road, causing a crashing of windows and general panic. Noone was injured here, however, and order was soon restored.
A fourth bomb outrage almost at the stroke of 6 was the hurling of a hand-grenade, over the barbed-wire, at a Japanese sentry near the crown of the Szechuen Road Bridge. The bomb, which landed close to its target, did not explode. As a result of this act the bridge was closed almost immediately by the Japanese military, and no traffic was allowed to pass for about an hour.
Activity on The Bund after these attacks assumed a feverish aspect as police, including the "Red Marias" of the Reserve Unit, arrived and started searching houses, motor-cars and rickshaws and pedestrians. Besides the members of the Russian Regiment, S.V.C., who patrol The Bund at all hours, the Seaforth Highlanders and the Japanese Naval Landing Party posted sentries at close intervals, giving The Bund the appearance of an armed ¢amp. On the footpaths there were more military than civilians for some time.
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