JAPAN AND CHINA.
Bomb Explosion on Tientsin
Station \ ATTEMPT TO CONTROL CITY PAILS
Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m, SHANGHAI, May 20.
following an attempt to assassinate General Huangfu at the Tientsin station, a bomb explosion wrecked part of the building, killing two persons outright and injuring five others just as the train arrived, from Peking.
The platform was crowded and passengers were alighting and the guards removing the luggage when a fire started and swept through the building. The perpetrators escaped. A little later shooting began in the native city. Groups of plain-clothes men, formerly followers of Shisyushan, a former Kuominchun general, tried to gain control of the city, but they were easily beaten by the police and fled in disorder, throwing away their pistols. An outburst of firing in the Japanese quarter followed, the attempt by 'Chinese plain-clothes men to secure control. The attackers fled after two hours’ stubborn fighting. Japanese ’planes circled the city during the morning, but dropped no bombs though they were fired on by the defenders.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 May 1933, Page 7
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