SUPPOSED BOMBS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1939, Page 5

SUPPOSED BOMBS

EXPLOSION MYSTERIES IN ENGLAND

MINOR DAMAGE IN SOUTHWARK. ATTEMPT TO DESTROY ELECTRIC CABLES. By Telegi-aph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 9.35 a.m.) LONDON. January 16. A mysterious explosion, attributed to a bomb, which occurred at Southwark at 6 a.m. was heard for miles in South-East London. The explosion, which was accompanied by a blinding flash, broke numerous windows within a hundred yards and blew a two-foot hole in the cement between the footpath and the control room of the Central Electricity Board, which was not damaged, as the building was made bombproof after the European crisis. No one was injured but there were many escapes from broken glass.

Home Office and Scotland Yard experts later searched the neighbourhood. The “Evening News” says the police are working on the theory that a dynamite or gelignite bomb was exploded for a political motive. Another explosion occurred at Harlesden, at 6 a.m., where cables are carried over a canal. Officials say the explosion was not connected with electricity and must have been from an cutside agency.

Other explosions, in the centre Manchester, killed one person and injured two and also fractured a gas main, which was set on fire, and did further damage, but these explosions are attributed to an electric cable fusing. SABOTAGE THEORY. ** NUMBER OF PEOPLE TREATED FOR SHOCK. I By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, January 16. It is believed that time bombs were used at Southwark and Harlesden. Scotland Yard, it is understood, is, working on the theory of sabotage. A number of people have been treated for shock at Southwark.