Terrorists Escape After Szechuen Road Bridge Outrage; Foreigner Among Wounded Shanghai, Sept. 17. WO military hand-grenades were thrown into crowded traffic at the south end of the Szechuen Road Bridge at 5.20 o'clock yesterday afternoon, wounding about a dozen persons including Toast one foreigner. Panic was caused in the serried ranks of factory workers and others passing the point at the time, and traffic was disrupted for a considerable period. Japanese Landing Party men, with bayonets fixed, surrounded the scene of the out= rage and almost immediately closed the Szechuen Road Bridge. The "Red Marias" of the "Police Reserve Unit raced to the spot from the western district, and scores of steel-clad detectives and uniformed men came from Central Station and Police Headquarters. was the first political bombing the International. Settlement since August 12, although on August 29 two hand-grenades were thrown into Chinese import_and export hong in a lane of Kiangse Road. The bombs used yesterday were manufneture similar to those ploded on August 20—that is, they ere. Mills-type. missiles bearing oriental Ideographs. A denial was recently Issued by the Japanese when these characters, pronounced "ishii"
Japanese, were described as signifying, Japanese manufacture, the counter-claim being made that the characters Indicated a Chinese munltions factory near Canton, Escaped in Motor-Car?
Yesterday's bomb-throwers easily escaped in the milling crowd into which they had struck terror. They apparently threw the grenades. from moving motor-ear which facilitate ed their flight. A foreigner at the iwas struck by a piece of hand grenade and damaged, while the Joceupant was unhurt, Chinese members of the crowd, mostly workers, fared the worst, at Toast nine being wounded. Two ' of these were In serious condition last night from wounds in various parts jof the body. One young man was struck in the left eye by a bomb fragment and may lose that eye. A woman was wounded in both legs. The casualty list including a Chinese police constable who, however, feseaped with minor cuts.
'Seven of the Chinese wounded were taken to the Lester Hospital in the new "Red Maria' of the police, This was at 545 p.m, For several hours after the bombing, police oMcials worked at the scene while Japanese Naval Landing Party officers and Japanese tgend~ farmes also conducted an extended Investigation on the spot, Members of the Police Reserve Unit carrying ries. threw a cordon about the immediate vicinity, and traMlc was diverted through neighbouring "Among the S.M.P, officials who inspected the scenes were Cap!
Smyth, Deputy Commissioner; IMr. 'f, Robertson, Deputy Commis sioner; Mr, W, E, Fairbairn, Assist~ fant. Commissioner in charge of riot personnel; Mr. A, H, Samson, Assist fant Commissioner; "Mr.
Robertson, Assistant Commissioner; Supt, A. Ht, Aiers; Supt, R, Conduit, Jand Detective Sub-Insp, J. G. Crighton, in charge of the special Head~ Jquarters squad investigating political
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