The Archive · 1938

Glass Bomb

An RASE. ambulance conveyed the other four men to the Military Hospital where they were treated by Capt. Smyth. Their wounds were stated to be superficial although each of them had lost an amount of blood.

They were in no danger, however, when a "North-China Daily News" reporter visited there shortly before midnight.

All the injuries were caused by flying glass from the exploding missile which was found to be a home-made grenade fashioned out of a bottle, being an exact replica of the two bombs which were thrown in the Frisco and New Deal cabarets recently on Rue Chu Pao San, Detectives from Sinza Police station arrived on the scene shortly after the bombing and were conducting enquiries for over two hours, during which time most of the debris near the window, which had been boarded up, and had been cleared away

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