The Archive · 1938

HAND-GRENADE CAST IN SUN AVENUE

But No-one Is Near Enough to Designate Place Detectives of the Shanghai Municipal Police were yesterday investigating the throwing of a "potato-masher" hand-grenade in Sun Avenue, a terrace off Bubbling Well Road east of Seymour Road, at 8.15 o'clock on Tuesday evening, The bomb was thrown by some unidentified person onto the roof of a garage where it did little damage A window was broken by the explosion. No-one was injured.

Although the report was heard by many persons in the neighbourhood, the fairly isolated position of the spot where the grenade was thrown made the affair a mystery for several hours, A rumour that the explosion had taken place at the Japanese Consular Residence in Seymour Road was quickly denied.

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