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I.R.A. OUTRAGES DURING BLACKOUT SOME DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. NO PERSONAL INJURIES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON. November 19. Irish Republicans in a taxi drove through the West End during a blackout. amid driving rain, and placed six bombs, causing four explosions between 8.30 and 9 p.m. The police yesterday found and extinguished two bombs. A feature of the incidents was the apathy of the public as a whole, despite the fact that they heard the explosions. The first occurred opposite the Plaza Theatre, near Piccadilly Circus. but it was the rapid arrival of fire-engines, rather than the explosion. which attracted the crowd. Some glass was broken and a piece of masonry dislodged from a parapet. Nobody was hurt. The second explosion blew a window at 56 Piccadilly Circus into the street and threw the twisted shutters across the pavement. Other explosions occurred at the corner of Piccadilly. Park Lane and Regent Street. Minor damage was done. The unexploded bombs were of the balloon and acid type. One was found in a Park Lane shop window and the other in the "Daily Telegraph” advertising office. DUBLIN HUNGER STRIKERS TWO SENT TO NURSING HOME. Richard McCarthy and John Lynch, who went on a hunger strike at the Arbour Hill military prison. Dublin, were released from custody in a very weak condition and taken to a private nursing home.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 5
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