COVENTRY EXPLOSIONS
DEATH OF FIVE PERSONS MURDER CHARGES FOLLOW Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 27. (Received September 28, at 10 a.m.) Charges of murdering four men and ono woman were preferred against two men and two women at Coventry, arising from the explosions of August 25. Alt were remanded. [A terrific explosion reduced the centre of Coventry to a shambles. Five people were killed and hundreds injured. Thousands of pounds of damage was done to shop fronts and windows in the chief thoroughfare, Broadgnte, which was ankle-deep in shattered glass. Buses and trams were damaged. It was believed that an I.R.A. dump blew up.]
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Evening Star, Issue 23383, 28 September 1939, Page 10
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104COVENTRY EXPLOSIONS Evening Star, Issue 23383, 28 September 1939, Page 10
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