POLICE STATION BOMBED
PREMISES BADLY DAMAGED (United Prana Association—By Electric Telegraph—Uopyrignt; MELBOURNE, -20th July. For the second time in two months a bomb explosion occurred at Ivanhoe. A bomb was thrown into a lane 30 yards from the police statioii. It wrecked a fence and a shed. Windows of shops and houses in the vicinity were broken. Nobody was injured however. Further details of the bombing outiage are to the effect that Constable Tierney was writing in the police station when he was swept from, his chair by the force of the explosion. A timefuse bomb was evidently used. There is no trace of the perpetrator. It has been found that the explosion occurred at exactly the .same spot where, on the night of 26th May, a bomb was thrown into the police station yard. The damage is more extensive than was at first ' estimated. Altogether thirteen premises have daina'ged walls, in several cases being blown out, while others are badly cracked. i
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 22 July 1929, Page 5
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