BOMB OUTRAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1928, Page 1

BOMB OUTRAGE

Q'niteii Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—C 'opy right.) MORE DEATHS. ROAIE April 14. A number of those injured in the bomb outrage at Milan are reported to lie dying. TJlie original victims included six soldiers, four children and two Nuns. Already one million lire lias been subscribed on I'ehalf ol the victims dependants. Ihe “ Giornalo D’ltalia ” asserts that an anonymous warning on the previous day to that on which Anarchists planned the Milan plot accounted for the change in the King's plans. Careful vigiis. however did not prevent the secretion ot the bomb in the post. The police have rounded up a number of suspects. Tile police have also arrested a woman, whom they believe will reveal an important plot. Tlie business places and schools of Rome were shut up, and the streets beilngged all over the city, in honour of the King’s return. Dense crowds lined the route to the Palace. Patriotic Associations, bearing banners, mustered in full strength. The fervid demonstrations of loyalty compelled the royalties to appear repeatedlv on the balcony.

AIUSSOLINI AS DECLARATION. ROM IC, April 14. Signor Mussolini luis ordered Mowers to he laid on tile graves of the bomb victims, referring to them as the '• bestial of criminality oT impotent and barbaric anti-Easi ism. ' He added. “But the enemy shall not prevail.” King Victor Emmanuel, on returning from Milan, had a tremendous ovation. Such scenes ot enthusiasm have not been witnessed in recent wars, expressing relict at His Majesty's escape. Meanwhile the arrest is reported from C’omo of a man who is believed ■ to be a perpetrator.