Bombs Hurled Within Few Minutes at. British and American Owned Publications ERRORISTS descended upon two foreign-registered Chinese newspapers in the International Settlement almost simultaneously: on the evening of Februa ry 10, wrecked the ground-floor offices with bombs and injured a total of four Chinese:
One of the establishments, the "Hwa Mei Wan Pao," in Avenue Edward VII near Kiangse Road, was damaged for the second time in four weeks, the first outrage there having occurred on January It is American-registered, and published by Mr. H, P. Mills, American, The first attack occurred at 6.18 o'clock at the "Wen Wei Pao, 436 Foochow Road, a publication n'recently started by Mr H. M.
Cumine, British, Mr. Cumine threatening letter regarding the is reported to have received a policy of his paper on Feb. 9.
An unidentified Chinese entered the ground-floor office inthe evening.
the elreulation staff of Chinese wore busy handling the despatch of the day's issue.
He paused behind the counter, produced a hand-grenade the "potato-masher" type, Serewed the top, pulled the ring and hurled the bomb towards the centre fof the room, The missile struck and #lanced off Mr. Fong, one of the em= lovees, but strangely. did not injure Tt exploded towards the rear of] the room, with an ear-splitting roar, turning the place into a scene of wild confusion, Three other mem-Bers of the circulation staff, Messrs. Chen, Siao and Pel, were wounded more oF Jess seriously, Desks and. chairs were splintered, every" pane of glass was smashed to bits, and blood spattered over the debris.
"The bon-thrower, who acted with phenomenal speed ' and precision, Garted out through the door, erunch-Ing. the shattered plate-glass window under "hig feet, and escaped in the crowded street, 'Across the roadway' the patrons and servants of a large restaurant came running out! to seo: what had happened. Upstairs in the restaurant the plaintive notes of string musie died abruptly away.
Within the "Wen Wei Pao" the acrid bomb smoke was slowly clearing. The eries of the wounded men mingled With the confused shouts of their torrifed fellow workers.
Serst. R. E, Regan, of Louza Station, was first on the scene, accompanied by Chinese constables. He turned in an alarm to the Station and a large parly of police under Chief Inspector Shellswell rushed to the newspaper office, 'The "red marias" of the Reserve Unit arrived from Gordon Road. and a thorough' search of the nelghbourhood was made. The terrorist, however, had disappeared.
'A Fire Brigade ambulance took the three wounded men to the Lester Hospital, close by. The condition of one victim, who lost a large amount, (of blood, was very: serious that night.
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