Cigarette Tins Hurled at Laou Kit Luen Silk Shop The homely type of "tin cannister" or Ruby Queen cigarette tin. hand grenade, made its unwelcome appear~ ance in'Nanking oad for the second time within a fortnight on March 25, Two of the makeshift missiles wore hurled at the premises of Laow Kiu Lven, silk merchants, 501 Nanking Road, at 645 pin," One of the grenades exploded just short of the Davement outside the shop, while the other landed on the pavement a short istence from the shop door, falling to explode, The missile which ex-Ploded, threw fragments for a wide Gistance over the street nnd. pave: ment, but luckily there "were casualties as a result, although there was heavy gramme in' the vicinity. at the time, and the pavement was crowded, While the Reserve Unit put in a hasty appearance to throw @ cordon Jaround the district and search for the terrorist or terrorists responsible, a detective squad from Louza Station made a thorough Investigation into the latest bombing outrage. No arrests were made, but inquiries were still being pursued by' the police up to late that night. It is practically certain that the grenades were not intended for any Japanese, none were close to the scene at the time when they were thrown, Tt thought that the hand-grenades might have been in the nature of an attempt to extort money from the proprietors of the store,
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