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Chinese celebrated throughout the World last week the "Double Ten Festival," "the tenth day of the tenth month," the day on which a bomb exploded in Hankow fifteen years...
...Signor Mussolini's limousine swept through the city gate, Signor Lucetti hurled a hand grenade. Well aimed, it struck the glass behind which sat Il Duce. The glass splintered, tinkled, held just sufficiently so that the bomb glanced to the roadway, exploded, hurtled stones and splinters which wounded eight bystanders and deeply scarred the back of the Premier's limousine, by then 30 feet away...
Both Calm. Dictator Mussolini and his would-be assassin both retained a glacial calm. The Premier sat quietly in his car and received an ovation with immobile features while his chauffeur changed a tire punctured by a splinter from the bomb...
Twenty two more alleged plotters against the President's life were held in custody last week, may suffer a similar fate. The nature of their conspiracy is still concealed. Allegedly, there were several plans: 1) To hand the President a bouquet containing a bomb. 2) To attack his motor in some lonely place. 3) To poison...
Scientist Bombed. When two of Chang's airplanes flew over Peking early in the week, dropping bombs at random, their pilots little suspected that one bomb exploded within 20 feet of Roy Chapman Andrews, discoverer of the first dinosaur eggs known to moderns, chief of the American Museum of Natural History's division of Asiatic exploration. Mr. Andrews had wisely leaped beneath a box car when the airplanes soared into view, and was not among the five persons killed (all Chinese). Emerging from his impromptu shelter, he continued to supervise the loading of the car with scientific paraphernalia...