A PREMATURE EXPLOSION.
TWO ARRESTS MADE. Received March 12, 0.51 p.m. MADRID. March 12. The bomb was loaded with a powerful explosive and filled with pieces of iron. It had been placed in a sewer under the landing stage from whence King Alfonso intended to start on his visit to the Austrian :sjuadron. The explosion was evidently premature. Everyone who heard it attributed it to the firing of a gun on a warship. Had a crowd been on the stage many would have •been killed. Two arrests have been made.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9047, 13 March 1908, Page 5
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90A PREMATURE EXPLOSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9047, 13 March 1908, Page 5
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