The report that a bombing had taken place in their sector caused a quick turn-out of three lorry loads: of the First Battalion, the Seaforth Highlanders, who proceeded to Louza Police Station and stood by there until quiet had returned to the district "As they left the Station, sharily after 11 pin, a small party of Japanese Military' Police in plain Slothes and riding in a lorry without ligence plates, came up Nanking Road and turned into Kweichow Road at high speed. A collision was narrowly averted' by the prompt action of the driver of one of the British army trucks. The Japanese party circled the block and halted, in -Kwangse Road, near the scene of the bombing to, make independent investigations, The bomb had struck almost in the middle of the road, exploding mushroom-like, The seven Chinese who were hit ran, as best they could, towards Nanking' Road and Tientsin eaving trails of blood. Windows' were shattered on both sides of the street and a Sun Sun Hotel truck parked at the east kerb was pitted by bomb fragments. The roar of the explosion could be heard plainly for blocks round.
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