The Archive · 1938

Sad End to a Hand Grenade

Local grenade-tossers, apparently, have reached the end of their list of newspaper offices marked out for terrorist operations, No grenades have been thrown for several days—and it seems that the terrorist element can find no useful purpose to which these pretty little objects can be put, for a perfectly good hand-grenade, unexploded, and calculated to make the average terrorist's fingers itch just to throw it at something or somebody was found last night in, of all places, a garbage bin at Lane 17, Chengtu Road, Perhaps the terrorist responsible for depositing it there was absent-minded, and threw the grenade in the garbage bin, and the remnants of his evening meal at the in-ideal singled out as his next victim,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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