A young Chinese was hard at work inflating the tyre of a motor car near the intersection of Avenue Edward VII and Szechuen Road a few minutes before 8 o'clock last night, when suddenly there was an explosion. The nearest policemen arrived at the double, seeing a man lying unconscious on the ground and thinking that e bomb had been thrown. A hasty examination, however, showed that it was merely an over-inflated tyre which had burst under the strain. The man was rushed to hospital, where he was found to be suffering from a fractured skull.
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