TERRORIST BOMBS
TRAIL IN LONDON WORK OF I.R.A. AGENTS COVER OF BLACK-OUT EXPLOSIONS IN CITY (Reed. Nov. 20, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 19. Irish Republicans in a taxi drove through the West End during a blackout amid driving rain and placed six bombs, causing four explosions between 8.30 and 9 p.m. The police found and extinguished two bombs.
A feature of the incidents was the apathy of the public as a whole, despite the fact that they heard the explosions.
The first occurred opposite the Plaza Theatre near Piccadilly Circus, but it was the rapid arrival of the fire engines, rather than the explosion, Which attracted the crowd. Some glass was broken and a piece of masonry was dislodged from a parapet. Nobody was hurt. Windows Shattered The second explosion blew a window at 56 Piccadilly Circus into the street and threw the twisted shutters across the pavement. The other explosions occurred at the corner of Piccadilly and Park Lane and Regent Street. Minor damage was done. The unexploded bombs were of the balloon and acid type. One was found in a Park Lane shop window and the other in the Daily Telegraph’s advertising office.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 7
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