A bomb of the canister type was thrown into the grounds of the Japanese Consular Residence in Seymour Road, at Weihaiwei Road, an unidentified person at about 5 o'clock yesterday evening.
The missile, which consisted of a cigarette-tin filled with explosive, failed to explode where it landed in the lawn of the well-known residence on the east side of Seymour Road.
Although Japanese members of the Shanghai Municipal Police are constantly on duty outside the Consular dwelling, none of the Japanese constables apparently noticed the person who came up to the garden wall and hurled the bomb. It is understood that a Japanese policeman had made a thorough search of the premises at 3 pin, without finding anything amiss. At 5 o'clock the unexploded bomb was discovered by a Japanese constable and handed over to Bubbling Well Station, where it was made harmless. M At a late hour last night, Japanese sources indicated that the bomb thrown into the Japanese Consular Residence had exploded without, however causing material damage.
Another Outrage F 4 it was also reported that a bomb. side the house of Mr. T. Yamamoto, manager of the local branch of the Line, at 116 Jessfield Road, again without much damage or injury to persons. further Japanese report that an as yet unidentified Chin Whose connection with arist activity was yet to be established, had been arrested in the ster; district carrying six hand dew of the type used in the Chinese army, The bombing was the second within Settlement limits d the day, the first being when unidentified person threw a canister bomb, fashioned from a cigarette-tin, into the corridor outside Room 218, Hardoon Building, at 645 o'clock yesterday morning and escaped. The room is occupied by the Japanese. censors who deal with Chineses registered newspapers, but as there was no-one on the floor at the time non-one was injured. The damage from the explosion was very slight, A Chinese watchman on the ground floor first investigated and then called the police from Central Station. He. did not see the person who threw the bomb.
When the Japanese who use the office arrived later, they investigated the occurrence and then started work as if nothing had happened. It was announced that the office would cóntinue to function at the premises, Detectives found and examined fragments of the home-made missile in the corridor.
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