At midnight the situation appeared to be calm, with the strictest vigilance however being observe throughout the Settlement and French Concession, The steady rain helped to keep the Chinese population quiet in the face of the quick succession of outrages, The curfew regulations were enforced with special severity, and search parties kept operating throughout the night, Many persons were questioned by the police, One of the main objects of the official search was a black motor-car from which, it said, most of the hand-grenades w thrown, A description of this car was broadcast by the authorities, but up to a.late hour it had not it been found, All "Potato Masher" Type As far learn, as the police could all the five bombs thrown were military hand-grenades of the "potato-masher" type. Only one of them, hurled into the mouth of an alleyway off Ningpo Read, in the troubled Louza district, failed to explode although its top been unscrewed. This missile was placed in water by the police and removed.
The first bomb exploded in the doorway of the Chinese Native Goods Emporium, Nanking Road near Shantung Road, as crowds were passing. Two Chinese men were wounded by it, one in the thigh and the other in ithe foot, while many others, including two foreigners riding in rickshaws, narrowly escaped injury. Two display counters in the Emporium were damaged. The blast caused a near-panic in the crowded thoroughfare making scores run to safety and many vehicles pull up
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