BOMB EXPLOSION

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1928, Page 5

BOMB EXPLOSION

GREEK CLUB DAMAGE

(Australian Press Association) (United Service).

(Receiver’ this day at 9.25. a.m.) MELBOURNE, December 3.

Prior to the Greek (Tub explosion, two men were seen carrying a suite use They entered the building and ascended to -x (loop above the club. A 'lew minutes later they left hurriedly and the explosion followed. Windows were blown out and crashed into the street. A third man in the street joined the two mentioned and they ran to Swanslou Street and disappeared from view in the crowd. Altogether fifteen were injured. Descriptions given to the police led lo the arrest of live men suspected of being connected with this or the previous outrage. A rumour that a certain shipping magnate’s home was to lie bombed led to a police search of a suspect’s house and his subsequent, arrest. Jle was detained temporarily on Friday with throe others suspected in connection with another bombing, at the house of Williams Swaiilun on November 20th. FURTHER REPORTS. SANTIAGO, December 2. The deaths have reached 122, On Saturday night sixty others were reported unofficially and two hundred and fifty injured. Tho cities Taka and Chilian arc the greatest sufferers. Talea is in ruins, with forty dead and two hundred injured. At Chilian thcro arc seventeen dead and thirty injured. Forty were killed and one hundred injured at Bamhona camp, Tonientc mine oif Braden Copper Company, when the shock broke tin’ reservoir loosing a torrent down the valley. Six are dead at Santa Cruz. Santiago anil Yalpariso were only slightly damaged, lmt several were injured in a panic-stricken rush to the streets.