Acting on information received detectives from Louza police station solved the Metropol Theatre bombing on Sunday afternoon when they ar-vested a seventeen-year old Korean at the Chinese Y-M.C.A. in Boulevard de Montigny. He was taken to the station for questioning and subsequently handed over to the Japanese authorities.
According to information available yesterday, detectives were working on the case day and night since the bombing occurred at the Metropol on Thursday night when the showing of "The Sea Hawk" had to be suspended as four smoke bombs were thrown toward the stage at about 10 p.m Actually there was little panic in the theatre and the audience left calmly er receiving tickets for another show, "Protection" Aim On Sunday afternoon. at about 3 o'clock. detectives of the Louza station were informed that. their man could be found at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. The premises were raided in cooperstion with the French Police and the wanted man was taken into custody.
He offered no resistance.
Taken onza station. the man wag believed to have confessed io the crime and was then handed over to the Japanese authorities, The bombing of the theatre, it was said. was done with the sole aim of intimidating the management. and not as a retaliatory measure as s ad been led to believe. It was said the Korean intended to demand "pro- confess ed that he had cooked two tection" money from the management Sit babies, nf the theatre.
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