BOMB EXPLOSIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1939, Page 7

BOMB EXPLOSIONS

FURTHER OUTRAGES REPORTED IN BRITAIN LITTLE’ DAMAGE AND NOBODY INJURED. THAMES BRIDGES PLACED UNDER GUARD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. March 31. Three more bomb explosions occurred early this morning in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Coventry, but the damage was negligjble apart from broken windows and nobody was injured. All the explosions are attributed to the Irish Republicans. All the Thames bridges are guarded, and the river patrols have been doubled. A special watch is being kept at the power stations. FORMER OUTRAGES ACCUSED FOUND GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY. REMANDED FOR SENTENCE. (Received This Day. 11 a.m.) LONDON, March 31. After the hearing of evidence in I.R.A. charges at Old Bailey, Charles and Thomas McCarthy were four,' 1 not guilty of conspiracy and being in possession and were discharged. Mitchell, Wharton, Logue, Burns, Fitzpatrick, John Ryan and Daniel McCarthy, a son of Charles McCarthy, were all found guilty of conspiracy. They will be sentenced on April 3. The evidence showed that Logue was born in April, 1921 and Burns in June, 1922.

OUTRAGES CONTINUE. MAN DIES OF HEART FAILURE. LONDON, March 31. A man in Birmingham collapsed and died of heart failure today after an explosion near his house. Two bombs exploded in the centre of Liverpool. A constable picked tfp a third and hurled it on the road where it blew a hole. A fourth bomb was found in a shop doorway. This contained enough dynamite to blow out the entire front of a six-story building under which it was paced. A bomb in Coventry exploded above some petrol tanks, but did not penetrate the surface.