OUTRAGE IN NEW YORK
BOMB EXPLODES AT WORLD’S FAIR. AFTER REMOVAL FROM BRITISH PAVILION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! NEW YORK, July 4. Four persons were injured, two of them seriously, by a bomb which exploded a few minutes after it had been removed from the British Pavilion at the World’s Fair. An electrician discovered a suitcase. None of the pavilion employees knew who had left it. Detectives were examining it when it exploded with such trrific force that it broke a heavy plateglass window in a Polish restaurant 100 feet away and left a crater five feet wide and two feet deep in the lawn. It blew fragments of an officer’s clothing 50 feet away. Fair officials said a man telephoned the pavilion on the morning of July 2 saying: “Get out of the building; we are going to blow it up.” Police ordered an extra daily inspection thereafter. G men and police are co-opera-ting in an investigation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1940, Page 7
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