Ttalian Sentry Has Narrow Escape A bomb of the cigarette-tin species was thrown yesterday morning on Brenan Piece from territory now under (e control of the Japanese military. 'The' missile, which was hurled from one of the houses west of Brenan Road, exploded within two. yards of the Italian sentry posted at the crossing and quite close, also, to a Chinese constable of the Shang-injured and there was no damage to property.
is understood that the Shanghai Municipal Council to make a protest to the Japanese authorities over the incident.
The explosion occurred about 1k o'clock and caused temporary excite~ ment at the crowded intersection. "The thrower escaped and presumably. had not been arrested last night.
Japanese soldiers arrived quickly on the scene from a post some thirty yards distant. They threw a cordon ment Police, who patrol the "outside Toads," and the Italian defence force. After the lapse of about an hour, calm returned to the neighbourhood.
The bomb, whose effective radius was quite small, was held to be similar to the missile which injured two French detectives and two small foreign girls in a garden at 1 Route Ghisi on Sunday. Other bombs of the same type were discovered by the Settlement Police in West Hongkew on January 4, and rendered The devastation of war is showh in these pictures taken at Woosung. Upper picture shows the remains of the Quarantine Station, and below the Wreckage of some of the houses, Concessions to
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