The Archive · 1938

Sequel to Bombing of Chinese Paper

Zung Dong-hsien, who, together with two other Chinese, was injured at the offices of the "Standard Newspaper," a British-registered Chinese language newspaper at 436 Foochow Road, on February 10, when a person threw a hand grenade into the office, succumbed to his injuries at the Lester Chinese Hospital yesterday morning, it was disclosed at the temporary mortuary where an inquest was held. The bombing followed the receipt, by the paper, of a threatening letter from the "Righteousness Corps", warning the paper against alleged anti-Japanese ideas.

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

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