London, Feb. 17.
Scotland Yard officers are inv tigating a bomb explosion which occurred in an aeroplane equipment factory at Hounslow. No damage was caused by the explosion. Workers found a coffee tin in which explosive powder had been placed.
When a further batch of seventeen men appeared yesterday at the Bow Street Police Court, charged under the Explosives Act, the cases were a journed for one week, owing to one of the accused being ill. The Magistrate explained that the charge of conspiracy which was one of these brought against the seventeen accused necessitated all of the accused being present in Court—Reuter.
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