Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, flies back to London from Berchtesgaden, where he had a 2% hour talk with Herr Hitler and received important at the south end of the Szechuen Road Bridge at 5.20 o'clock counter-proposals. yesterday afternoon, wounding about a dozen persons including at least one foreigner.
Panic was caused in the serried ranks of factory workers and others passing the point at the time, and traffic was disrupted for a considerable period.
Japanese Landing Party men, with bayonets fixed, surrounded the scene of the outrage and almost immediately closed the Szechuen Road Bridge. The "Red Marias" of the Police Reserve Unit raced to the spot A semi-official proclamation issued in Budapest asks for world sympathy for the Hungarian claim of self-determination in Czechoslovaki cee The Czech Government issues a warrant for the deten-from the western district, and scores of steel-clad detectives and uniformed men came from Central Station and Police Headquarters. tion of Herr Henlein, Sudeten leader. cee It was the first political bombing in the International Settlement since August 12, although on August 29 two hand-grenades were thrown into a Chinese import and export hong in a lane off Kiangse Road. The bombs' used yesterday were of manufacture similar to those exploded on August 29—that is, they were Millé-ty missiles bearing oriental ideograph: A denial was recently issued by the Japanese when these characters, pronounced "ishii" in Japanese, were described as signi-a "soccer" referee, The tall Mr.
Lenoise was struck in the face by a piece of one of the bombs as he was walking across the intersection to purchase in a shop at the west side of Szechuen Road. His chin was gashed, and he was taken in a Fire Brigade ambulance to the General Hospital. He was later able to leave the hospital on foot.
Another foreign man was reported to have been slightly injured, but as said not to have gone to' any hospital for treatment. The police at a late hour last night had not been able to find this witness. r. W. Mohr, German, had a narrow escape as he was driving his motor-car from the Szechuen Road Bridge into Soochow Road. The car was struck by a piece of hand-grenade and damaged, while the occupant was unhurt.
Chinese members of the crowd,
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