BOMB SPREADS SWIFT DEATH

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 328, 13 April 1928, Page 1

BOMB SPREADS SWIFT DEATH

ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF ITALIAN KING FOURTEEN MILANESE KILLED, 40 INJURED SECOND BOMB MENACES SIGNOR MUSSOLINI (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian P.A.—United Service) Reed. 9.5 a.m. HOME, Thursday. FOURTEEN persons were killed and 40 were injured in a bomb explosion on the occasion of King Victor Emmanuel’s visit to Milan. The bomb had been placed at the foot of a lamp-post in the Piazza Giulio Cesare. It exploded terrifically just before King Victor arrived.

TJ-ING VICTOR had only reached Milan in the morning, and had opened the famous fair.

Despite the outrage, the King proceeded to carry out the official ceremony, afterwards driving to the grounds and visiting the more important pavilions. Other items of the day’s programme, with the exception of a gala perform-

ance at the La Scala Theatre, proceeded unchanged. The police are actively searching for the culprits. King Victor later visited the hospital and spoke to those who had been injured in the explosion. The Piazza Giulio Cesare is a large square near the entrance to the fair. A squad of Rome detectives hrf; gone to Milan, whose Mayor offeys £I,OOO for information as to the perpetrators of the outrage. BOMB FOR MUSSOLINI Advices from Como state that a powerful bomb was discovered on the railway line over which Signor Mussolini was due to pass on his returu to Rome. It had a thread attached and the other end was held by a mar hiding near th* track. The man was arrested. There have beer several previous at . tempts to kill Signor Mussolini Signor Mussolini. A TERRIFIC SPECTACLE mutilated bodies ALL ITALY AGHAST (Australian Press Association) Reed. 12.26 p.m. ROME, Thursday. The city is aghast at the two bomb outrages. Signor Mussolini, in a message to the King, declares that the whole of Italy is vibrating with indignation. The Milan outrage occurred at 10 o’clock in the morning, close to the triumphal arch of Julius Caesar, in the square, five minutes before the King’s procession passed. Apparently, his Majesty’s decision to drive direct to the fair .from the train saved his life. Experts say the bomb was of a new type, shaped like a huge grenade, and so constructed as to burst into hundreds of pieces. Moreover, it was electrically operated. The bomb was cunningly secreted inside the lamp-post, the fragments of w-hlch were largely responsible for the slaughter. The explosion damaged houses over a wide area. There was a terrible spectacle in the roadways. Mutilated bodies lay in every direction, an indescribable stampede adding to the horror.