ANOTHER BOMB
FOUND IN GENERATING STATION FAILURE OF DAMP FUSE. SCOTLAND YARD ON WAR TIME BASIS. LONDON, February 6. It is revealed that Scotland Yard was organised on a wartime basis over the weekend. All leave was stopped and 1000 policemen were distributed at strategic points throughout London. Today a watchman found a homemade bomb in the electric generating station ip Titchfield Street. It failed to explode owing to a damp ftise. Fires occurred in shops in Coventry caused by envelopes containing toy balloons filled with nitric acid, which, after penetrating the rubber, ignited magnesium powder and caused an intense blaze.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1939, Page 5
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101ANOTHER BOMB Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1939, Page 5
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