At midnight the situation appeared to be calm, with the strictest Vigilanee "however being observed throughout the Settlement and French Concession, 'The steady rain helped to keep the Chinese popula lon quiet in' the face of the quick Succession of outrages, 'The' curfew regulations were or foreed with xpeciat severity, and search parties kept oper out the night, Many. p were questioned by "the potice one of the main objects of the official "search was a mysterious black motor-ear from which, it was ald, most of the hand-grenades were thrown, A description of this car was broadcast by the authorities, but up to a late hour it had not been found, "Potato Masher "Type As far ax the police could tear, all the five bombs thrown were military—handegrenades of the potato-masher" type. Only one of them, hurled into the mouth of an alleyway off Ningpo Road, in the troubled Louza district, failed to ex-lode although Lis top'had been unscrewed, This missile was placed in ier by the police and removed.
The first bomb exploded in the doorway of the Chinese Native Goods Emporium, Nanking Road near Shantung." Road, ax crowds were passing. Two. Chinese "men were wounded by it, one in the thigh and the other in the foot, while many oihers, including two foreigners rid-Ing n rickshaws, narrowly escaped injury, Two display counters in. the Emporlum were damaged, The blast caused a near-panic in the crowded thoroughfare making scores run to safely and many vehicles pull up abrupuy,
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