London, Mar. 24.
A series of violent explosions at 2 a.m. rudely awakened the residents in the districts neighbouring Woolwich Common in the South-East of London. All available police units were immediately despatched to the scene. According to witnesses, there were twenty explosions within h an hour.
The explosions we attributed to the bursting of oxygen cylinders following a fire which broke out in a shed of the Woolwich Scientific and Military College.
The explosions were so violent that the firemen and soldiers who rushed to the scene had to flee for shelter from the splinters which landed at points nearly 200 yards from the of the explosion. The shed s completely destroyed. and although the origin of the fire is not known. it is not believed that it due to a deliberate act.—Havas. district in m considerable go ported to have been f The two other ne for north-t of China Trans-Aces Tur U.S. Government is planning a series of nationally antitrust suits which are at present under when
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