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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1939, Page 7

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THREE BOMB EXPLOSIONS IN BIRMINGHAM WINDOWS SHATTERED OVER WIDE AREA. A ROADSWEEPER’S DISCOVERY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON April 5. Three bomb explosions in the centre of Birmingham early this morning extensively shattered windows, but no one was injured. The first occurred at 2 a.m. near the city’s main station, the second 30 minutes later near the corporation buildings, and the third at 3.20 a.m. A roadsweeper later found an unexpoded bomb in a refuse bin. He calmly carried it to the police station, where it was promptly rendered harmless. FURTHER EXPLOSIONS. IN LIVERPOOL AND COVENTRY. LONDON, April 5. A bomb exploded today in the shrubbery of a boulevarde opposite the Liverpool Cricket Ground. No serious damage was done. An hour later a second bomb placed at the foot of a tramway pole in the centre of the city, blew a six-foot hole in the road, but did not damage the track. Another bomb in Coventry, attached to a tramway pole at an important junction, did not bring down the wires, but broke 30 windows. SECRET RADIO. ' I.R.A. STATION’S ACTIVITIES. (British Official Wireless.! LONDON, April 5. Posters displayed in’Southern Eire yesterday announced that a secret I.R.A. radio station was regularly broadcasting on 24 metres and “sending instructions to units in the British Army, also orders to units in England, America and Canada. “It lengthily condemned the British occunation of Ireland and British hypocrisy for denouncing Hitler for doing the same thing in Europe as Britain was doing in Ireland.”