The Archive · 1939

Crowds Demonstrate

Crowds demonstrated against any persons in the crowd who looked as if they might be Irish.

Later, five men were taken to Cannon Row Police Station for questioning.

Another bomb exploded in the clock room of Victoria Station at 935 pin. It is understood that several persons were injured.

The shutters of the cloak room were blown out, and people ran in all directions.

The platform was smothered in smoke, and ambulances and a fire-engine were rushed to the scene.

Police were immediately dispatched to the spot.

Three porters, and three people who were in the cloak room at the time of the explosion, were taken to hospital, and two other porters were treated for shock at the station.

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