Shanghai, Feb. 12.
Wesley Davie Morris, the son Brigadier and Mrs. B. Morris of the Salvation Army, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon when playing with a hand-grenade that he and a friend found near the Soochow Creek on Brennan Road, His right hand was torn away and whilst the other hand was seriously injured as well, doctors. attending him last night "believed that they would be able to save it, It appears that the two boys went for a ride on their bicycles carly yesterday afternoon, when they sav the missile and, after golfing off thei machines, Wesley picked it up. When saw that it was a hand-grenade, he threw it away, at which point it exploded.
was rushed to the Country Hospital where an operation was performed and, according to. information available last night, the patient was resting comfortably and the doctors attending him were satis-fled with his condition.
The other boy was not injured although Wesley received several small burns on various parts of the body. these being: of a minor nature.
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