DELAYED BOMB STARTS TO TICK
i Received Thursday, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, April 25. ! When a German 1000-lb. delayed action homb began ticking five years i after it was dropped in 1941, hundreds of strollers hustled from St. James' ! Park. The Mall and Birdcage Walk ! closed down and phone messages giving j 'warning of the tmmineiit danger were ' sent to Buckingham Palace, Marlbor- : ough House and other houses nearby. \ The bomh is said to he liable to explode j any minute. , Sappers today found the bomb thirtyone feet down after several days' digJ ging, but when a disposal sauad coin- ; manding officer tested it with a stetho- , scope, it hegin ticking. Without j waiting to place protective sandbags j around the base of the shaft. the commanding officer withdrew his men, ! warning the police and Royal residence fchat the bomb would explode within ; twentyfour hours. j All availahle police were sent to the ! park to cordon oi!' tlie area. Their . Majesties are at Windsor and there is j only a skeleton staff at Buckingham j Palace. Queen Mary, returning late this afternoon from Windsor, was informen | of the danger but refused to be defcerred ! and tonight lights v/ere shining from j the front rooms of Marlborough Houso • as usual.
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 April 1946, Page 5
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