BOMB OUTRAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1928, Page 3

BOMB OUTRAGE

ROME AO HAST. (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ROME, April 12. The city is aghast following two bomb outrages. Mussolini in a message to the King says the whole of Italy is vibrating at indignation at the Milan outrage. It occurred at ten in the morning close to the Triumphal Arch, Julius Caesar Square, live minutes before the Kings progression passed. Apparently his .Majesty’s decision to drive direct to the fair from the train saved his lile. Experts says tire bomb was ot a new type shaped like a huge grenade and so constructed as to burst into hundreds of pieces. Moreover it was electrically operated and contained an explosive bomb. It was cunningr'l.v secreted inside a lamp post, fragments of which were largely responsible for the slaughter. The explosion damaged houses over a wide area. There was a terrible spectacle in the roadway with mill dated bodies in everv direction, an indescribable stampede adding to the horror. A TERRIBLE SCENE. ROME, April 13. There were twenty-three persons killed in the Milan bomb outrage. Fragments of the lamp post which was blown tip dented the walls ol the neighbouring houses up to the third floors. The explosion, shattered every neaiby window. One woman on a balcony above the explosion became maddened at the sight of the dead and the dying. She jumped down and killed one of the injured, and she later died as King \ i<tor Emmanuel reached her bedside. ROME, April Ri. Tbe sufferers I>y the Milan' bomb outrage are largely women and children, who constituted the majority of the crowd. One Boy Scout was l.lown to pieces, while a little girl was decapitated. A soldier Was comp'ictely disembowelled, while a policeman was found in a pool of blood, surrounded by three children, all terribly wounded. One little girl, who had climbed a flagpole, was torn to hits, her right band being the only limb that was lolt intact.

KING'S LUCKY ESCAPE. ROME. April 1!" King Emmanuel owed bis lile to a slight'hitch in the programme, this • causing him to he ten minutes late. Despite the hoinh outrage. His Majesty the King, noting in conformity with Italy’s new tradition, carried out the ceremony at the Fair. 1 lie King then visited the hospital, stopping at each victim’s hod. • He promised the sufferers State care for themselves and their families.

QUEEN’S CONCERN. ROME, April 13. When the Queen of Italy heard of the attempt on her husband’s life she wa staying at the Castle Eor/.mno. on the outskirts of Rome. She immediately telephoned to Milan and held an affectionate conversation with the King. OBJECT OF THE OUTRAGE. ROME, April 13. The excitement at Romo had not subsided when the report came that a gelignite honth had boon found on the , railway over which Signor Mussolini s t train must pass, on its way from Rome to Milan. The Italian authorities alter tne outrage sent a huge force of detectives from Rome to Milan, to investigate the crime. ' Signor Mussolini sent a message to , King Victor Emmanuel stating: “lhe nation, with deep devotion, draws more closely to your Majesty. Milan s industrial life and the nation’s steadfast discipline wifi continue, to the dynasty’s renown and Italy’s power. arrests reported. PARIS. April 12. It is reported that there have been wholesale arrests in Italy of Communists and Socialists. HOME, April 13. The authorities believe that the Milan outrage has been part of a widespread plot to “get Sign°i Mussolini in the course of the festivities at Milan. That city was the scene of Signor Mussolini’s first political triumph.