BOMB OUTRAGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1939, Page 8

BOMB OUTRAGES

IN LONDON RAILWAY STATIONS One Person Killed Oißxight and Others Gravely Injured LEFT LUGGAGE OFFICE BECOMES A SHAMBLES' PORTER’S LEG BLOWN OFF (By Telegraph. —Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LOXDOX. July 26. One pen-on was killed and sixteen injured as the result cf the explosion cf two bombs, almost simultaneously, in the left luggage office of the King’s Cross railway station. Those injured include two women, whose clothes were torn off by the blast. The office is a shambles. A terrine explosion rocked the neighbourhood. Three women and two porters, who -were inside the office at the time cf the explosion, were- seriously injured. One porter had a leg blown off and his clothes were ripped off. A constable nearby was badly cut by flying glass. A chaffeur and a woman inside a can outside the station were also wounded. The office presented a scene of indescribable devastation. 'A great cloud of smoko belched from lhe office, into which policemen dashed and dragged out the injured. A woman, fifty yards away, was blown off her foot. The roadway and the station .approaches were littered with debris from shattered suitcases. . ANOTHER EXPLOSION Bomb at Victoria Station THREE PERSONS INJURED (Received This Dav, 10.40 a.m.) ' ‘ LONDOX, July 26. A bomb exploded in the cloakroom of Victoria Station, injuring three persons. ATTITUDE OF EIRE Plain Statement Demanded from Ministers MINORITY DRAGGING COUNTRY IN THE DUST (Received This Dav, 11.0 a.m.) DUBLIN, July 26. Mr McDermott moved in the Eire Senate that the country was entitled to an explicit statement from the Government as to the justifiability and expediency of the bombings. Many people in England and Eire believed that the Government secretly sympathised with the outrages. The duty of Ministers was to make their own view clear. He was sure Mr De Valera totally disapproved—it was time to proclaim that disapproval in unmistakable language. Mr Desmond Fitzgerald demanded, not a statement but • action, against the minority dragging Eire in the dust. STATEMENT BY DE VALERA Position of Governmeai Defmed (Received This Dav, 12.10 p.m.) * ’ DUBLIN, July 26. Mr Do Valcr;i declared that it was clear the Government could take up only one attitude. Its authority had been challenged and legislation had been introduced to combat tlie challenge. “The activities of the 1.R.X.. if allowed to continue, would lead to anarchy,” he contained, “but we see the two sides and know the wrong done by partition, which has led to the unfortunate occurrences in England.” There was no excuse for tlie bombings and the Government did not sympathise with them. Undoubtedly they involved a setback Io Eire. Mi* McDermott withdrew his motion as he was satisfied that Mr De Valera had indicated the utter futility of the outrages. ’ ANOTHER VICTIM DIES Crowds at King’s Cross Infuriated EVIDENCE OF TREMENDOUS FORCE OF EXPLOSION * (R.i’ccived This Dav. 11.50 a.m.) LOXDOX, July 26. Dr Donald Campbell, of Edinburgh, who bail just arrived mi holiday with Ids wire, died in hospital as a result of multiple in iiiric;. Hi; wife was injured in Ihe legs. Seventeen others were admitted to ho-.pit •>!, including six women and a girl aged ■" ■fifteen. Al the time oi the explosion, four einiJoyees and two passengers were inside :iic cloakroom and four others were in the doorway. Railways polir-cmen. th"i\ci: blinded by fume:;, conrageo'c !y dashed into the wive kid < tiiee Io assist the- injured. Ar, il war. lii.xli time, iliire v.ei ■ big' crowd.?; on the platforms and people were hoi - ; hied in see a woman thing io the pavement. with portions of her dress lorn off. i'fie jmliw. <i< • »: t a hm- search, failed to firn! llie bcnib. The explosive is believed to have been gelignite. A large hole was blow:: i:> tin* floor of the cloakroom. Trunks wore burst anti uni a simile e.i.ie parcel w;:-. undamaged. Nearly a hundred p..lawmen were rm-bed t<> tlie station ami adi.wed ’ to paw, without reasiii. Depositors of luggage a other termini were closely scrutinised. The crowds were so infuriated that the police had the greatest difficulty in preventing assaults on Irish looking persons. Rive rm were taken to a police station and questioned. Compared with the King’s Cross outrage. the Victoria Station explosion was a minor aa'air. Three attendants had mirrsw (■cam’s. (In? was taken i . !>.»spii;d ami the oilier two were ironies! i!m si ■iiom S’.h ut t ers wore ' blown oui and 1 lie ( loa!■:rmmi was filled wii-i smoke. I’oii.-e .•imlmianeos ami a fir ■ ( mrine wore I'l.simd up. 'i'he police kepi a close watch on i);e railway vladmd no;;r U|>|)ingliam. the biggest railway bridge in England, as they wore informed tlm! there was a plot n> blow ii np lomghi. Dr Domdd Camgheli was ;; lecturer al Edinburgh vor .ily am! wa - married earlv in the year. The House of (’ommons road a third time the Prevention of Violence Bill, without a di vision.