BOMBS THROWN

Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 13

BOMBS THROWN

OUTRAGE IN SHANGHAI JAPANESE OFFICIALS TERRIBLY INJURED TRAGEDY AT MILITARY REVIEW Prm Allocution— By Telegraph—Copyright. SHANGHAI, April 29. During a military review in Honkew Park in honour of the Japanese Emperor’s birthday, in which 10,000 Japanese troops participated, bombs were thrown at a platform on which were seated the principal Japanese officials. Mr Shigemifsu (Japanese Minister to China), Mr Murai (Japanese ConsulGeneral), General Shirakawa (com-mander-in-chief of the military forces), 'Admiral Nomura (naval commander-in-chief), Admiral Shimada, Major-gene-ral Teshiro, and Mr Kawabata (civilian intelligence officer) were seriously injured. Mr Kawabata is not expected to live. Troops surrounded the park, preventing thousands of spectators from leaving, and a foreign parkkeeper, one Chinese, and five Koreans were arrested. One of the last-named was nearly lynched by an indignant mob of Japanese. Two bombs were thrown while the company was singing the Japanese National Anthem.

MANUAL LAW DECLARED

STATE OF TENSION SHANGHAI, April 29. Mr Shigemitsu was terribly injured in the lower part of the body, being almost disemboweled. Mr Murai was similarly injured, and Admiral Nomura will lose his left eye. General Shirahawa’s face is disfigured, his teeth being blown out. A would-be assassin, a Korean, was so severely manhandled that he subsequently died. Three Chinese who were arrested were also battered unmercifully, and two will probably die. When the bombs exploded they stunned officials and people within a radius of 20yds. As a result of the outrage the Japanese have declared martial law in the northern districts, and a state of tension exists which will prevent the possibility of peace talks in the immediate future.

THE ARMISTICE NEGOTIATIONS

LONDON, April 29. (Received April 30, at 8.30 a.m.) The ‘ Daily Mail’s ’ Geneva correspondent says:—Mr Stimson will probably remain over the week-end, as a result of the acute situation that has again arisen in the Sino-Japanese dispute. While Japan has accepted Sir Miles Lampson’s proposed Shanghai armistice terms, she categorically refuses to give the League’s Investigating Commission the right to fix the date of withdrawal. The Chinese Government has accordingly suspended the armistice negotiations. BRITAIN'S REGRETS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 29. (Received April 30, at noon.) An expression of the deep regret with which the British Government had learned of the Shanghai bomb outrage, aa the result of which six of the Japanese leaders suffered injury, has been conveyed to the Japanese Government by the British Ambassador at Tokio.