The Archive · 1939

More Explosions Occur

London, May 4.

Several terrorist explosions took place in Great Britain last night and early this morning, Early in the day a bomb exploded in the High Holborn district, shattering several window-panes. Some minutes previously, a policeman found a bomb lying' near by. A few hours "later a second explosion took place in the Euston district, awakening the entire neighbourhood and breaking all the shop windows of a motor car sales agency.

'A. series of three explosions terrorized the population of Coventy. The Airst took place in front of a furniture store causing consider-fable damage, the second emptied a hall in which a meeting was taking place. The third bomb—exploded before the door of a ce-operative store exactly when policemen came to pick it up. None of the police men was injured—Havas Bomb Outrages Occur in Many Areas of London London, May 4.

Commencing at 1 a. today, and continuing unfit 9.15 a.m., bomb outrages were reported from. various Parts of the Metropolis, with result. ant damage to shop premises, Three persons received minor injuries. A bomb explosion was also reported from Coventry.

The Recorder, Sir Gerald Dodson, today passed a sentence of ten years! imprisonment on an Irishman, Me-Laughlin, for unlawful possession of

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