The Archive · 1938

Station X.M.H.A. Bombed

The next two bombings occurred almost simultaneously, one outside Radio Station X.M.H.A., Race Course Road, from which unco! d broadcasts long have emanated. This attempt was at 729 pin. and it injured a Chinese watchman who was passing pt the time. He was sent to the Policd Hospital in a Fire Brigade ambulance. It was said last night that his wounds were only slight. A transom/at the entrance to the building was Aantaged, and a hole was torn in the broadway.

led at Welcome] Terrace, off Avenue About 7.30 another bomb was hur-Road. near Jessfield Road. No-one was injured in this attack.

The next bomb did not explode. It was thrown, apparently from the mysterious black car, into the jen-trance of an alleyway on the north side of Ningpo Road a short distanc east of Kweichow Road and not very far from the gate of the Louza Police Station, This was ary hand-grenade, "potato-masher" type, and the top of it had been removed: so as to make it ready for its death dealing mission, The Police Reserve Unit made a thorough search of the neighbourhood but failed to arrest anyone. The bomb was placed in a bucket of water by the Police and removed,

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