The Archive · 1939

Eleven Injured When Bomb Smashes Entrance to Embankment Building Premises of Steamship

Shanghai, Aug. 13.

HREE Chinese men and one woman were seriously injured and seven sustained minor injuries when a bomb was thrown into the N. Honan Road entrance of the Shanghai Inland Steamship Navigation Ca., a Japanese concern with offices on the ground floor of the Embankment Building, at about 8.15 p.m. yesterday. A glass pane above the door was badly smashed as the cigarette tin type hand evade had passed through there, whilst shrapnel perforated the large windows at several places.

The exact circumstances of the incident could not be ascer tained, as every! was stated to have happened with such rapidity that none of the eye-witnesses was able to give a clear version of the happening.

'Among, the injured is CP.C. 2007 attached to West 'Hongkew station. who was on duty' at that intersection And Suffered abrasions on the right farm, while. a member of the "Bt Company, S.C, was also near the when one of them attempted climb on one of the P.W.D. barriers Which had been placed around. the scene of the bombing, he was ordered to leave.

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