Delhi, Dec. 23.
The Viceroy's. train was bombed 10 miles from here this morning.
The door of the dining-car was smashed and one person injured.
The occurrence took place on the eve of the Viceroy's conference with five of the most prominent Nation-
The Viceroy's train was travel. ting at the rate of 50 miles an hour Jand ina thick fog when the bomb exploded, It had been placed two miles outside New Delhi Stati Jand the officials and others assembled there to greet Lord Irwin heard the detonation, which they at first attributed to 'a fog signal.
A medical officer aboard the train was the first to discover what had happened. The restaurant car immediately behind the Vi regal coach was wrecked and when. the medical officer reached" the scene he found one of the attendants lying injured on the floor compartment.
Lord Irwin viewed the damage and chatted with the injured man, the train proceeding to New Delhi without stopping. apparently the bomb was ex: ploded elect¥ically from a distance of two and a half miles, To-day is the anniversary of a similar attempt 17 years ago when Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, then Viceroy-of India, was making State entry into: Delhi.
Train Sul on Time Lord and Lady Irvin and the Viceroy's staff were returning to Delhi at the conclusion of a very successful tour of the leading Indian, states when a bomb placed on the rails exploded as the train passed The whole train was considerably shaken but, nevertheless, arrived in The opinion is-expressed that the outrage was an'attempt to sabotage the conference between Lord Irwin and the Nationalist leaders, Loni Irwin's return marks an. important page in the history of. Nev Delhi, as His Excellency to-day. ffcially took up residence in the arent, new Viceregal house designed by the famous architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, who was a member of the committee to advise the Government of India as to the site of Delhi in 1912 and who later became one of pei The Union Jack was hoisted as His Excellency entered the building and shortly after the Viceroy plunged into work.
It was while he was visiting Myderabad that the Viceroy received an intimation that the National leaders Ghandi, Mot X. Patel, M. A. Jinna} Sapra wished to give hit views on the recent announcement regarding the round-table confer-fence on the fature constitution Indi The Viceroy accordingly invited them to meet him at the Viceregal house to-day, The meeting fs additionally im: portant as the All-India Congress opens at Lahore on Thursday consider the action to be taken by. the Congress Party in view of its Secision "at the beginning of the year to start a campaign of civil resistance to British rule if Domin-fon status were not granted by December 31.
The Nationalist leaders' request to the Viceroy is construed as a bid to reach a compromise and, for this reason, it is thought that the: bomb outrage to-day was designed, to wreck any possibility of a recon!
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