Mr. Pao Kwan-cheng, Foreign Minister' of the Government of Manchoukuo is reported tq have been seriously wounded in Chihgkiang, his native district in Kiangsu where he recently paid a visit, While enjoying seeing. a Chinese play in a theatre with other officials a bomb was suddenly tossed into their midst breaking Mr, Pao's left arm, A Chinese correspondent writing dram Chingkiang stated that Mr. Pao arrived at his native city recently from Manchoukuo and on June 3 he was invited to dinner by the magistrate and police chief of the district. Several Japanese ofcials were also invited.
After dinner, they went to the theatre and while they were seeing a Chinese play there was a terrific explosion in which Mr, Pao was injured in the left arm and soon blood covered -all over his body. There was a turmoil in which theatre goers tried to run to places of safety. There were also other casualties but the message did not state clearly as to who, they were. The bomb thrower escaped.
A city-wide search for suspects was soon started and as a result more than 30 persons were arrested.
Bad luck is also reported by the Chinese press to have dogged Mayor Fu Hsiao-en, of Greater Shanghai, His ancestral tombs in his native district of Chinghai are said to have been destroyed last Saturday when one of the bombs dropped by Japanese planes registered a direct hit on the tombs. More than 60 houses were destroyed and two women killed, German Consulate in
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