Shanghai, June 13.
'A wave of terrorism swept over Shanghai yesterday evening when five hand-grenades were thrown by unidentified persons in widely separ-aod localities, injuring three Chinese and @ Japanese, The Police Reserve Unit vang raced. from place to, place 16 control the situation and threw cordons about the affected areas, While the British Military Head: quarters sent patrols of the First Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders, to Nanking Road as far as The Bund, and "sled-helmeted members of the 8, V.C, Russian Regiment kept marehing up and down The Bund unfit a Tate hour. Special details of police: were placed at all important points. in the Settlement to forestall further outbreaks, The first bombing occurred on Nanking Road near Shantung Road 7.15 pan, arid the last one at 9:40 O'clock in''Szechuen Rondo. short Aistance south of Jinkee Road, A Tew seconds after the latter, three Japanese members of the Mlisubisht stall were halted by Chinese fables with drawn. guns at' the Intersection of Szechuen Road and Nanking Road as they were running across Nanking Road.
These men, whose names were withheld, were {aken to Central Police Siation and questioned. They were still being held there at midnight. One of them, who had been wounded slightly In'the left leg by: the bomb thrown in Szechuen Road, was sent to the Japanese Foo Ming Hospital accompanied by Japane members of the Settlement Police and then returned to Central Station after:
had been treated, anyone, The bomb was placed in fa bucket of water by the Police and removed, Szechuen Road Outrage At about 9.40 o'clock the fifth hand-grenade was thrown, in Szechuen Road near Ningpo Road, This missile was apparently dropped in the muddle of the street and it caused damage to two Chinese shops on the fest side and also tore u hole in the pavement, The place is directly opposite the China Travel Service, a Chinese enterprise. Three Chinese asleep in the Fit-U-Well Tailor Shop, ton the opposite side of the road, es-eaned injury almost miraculously as the fragments of the bomb shattered the plate-glass and splintered the furniture, was a few seconds after this attack that three young Japanese, Cmployces of the Mitsubishi Bank, while running from the scene of the bombing, were stopped by Chinese policemen on Nanking Road and de-{ained. They were bundled into a police car and taken to Central Biation, where they were closely questioned.
One of these men, while they were surrounded by "police with "drawn pistols, was understood to have declared "that "We are Japanese Police." This statement he later denied at Central Station, saying that he merely expressed a wish to speak to Japanese members of the Settlement Police. "A foreign witness, how-fever, made a statement to foreign detectives saying that he was reasonably sure that the Japanese had declared plainly that he and his two companions were "Japanese Police."
Three Japanese Released
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