The closing of the bridges vesult~ In veritable caravans of cars and trucks along the Bund, Museum and Szechuen Roads, The same picture could be seen along North Soochow Rond and Bast Broadway. Hundreds of Chinese returning home either to the International Settlement or Wayside were forced to remain waiting at the foot of the bridge for almost two hours. Foreigners and Japan £0, on foot, wore luckier. The Jap-nese authorities opened the Garden Bridge to foreign and Japanese pedestrians at $20 p.m. allowing them to cross by the right side, Just who deposited the time bombs at the theatres could not be ascer= tained yesterday, since no duos whatever had' been found, Some people believed that the missiles had Leen placed there by the employees of the theatre, but this was disearded after they' had been questioned. The likeliest theory, however, was put forward by ettlers, who claimed that the terrorists could have enterced the theatre, left the bombs under the seats and gone out of the cinema before the picture had ended.
Indignation over the act of ter~ serism swept through the Japanese community yesterday. Chinese tertorists, they claimed, had turned to attack' civilians, being foiled in thor attacks on military personnel by the severe measures taken by the Japan-ose authorities,
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