BOMBS FOR JUDGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1923, Page 24

BOMBS FOR JUDGES.

A L/ISBOX SENSATION. The lons list of bomb outrages in Lisbon has been added to by a dastardly attempt on the lives of three judges serving on the Tribunal of Social Defence. ! Just as they were descending the stepe of the Law Courts, three bombs were hurled at them, two together and the third after a few seconds' interval. The panic was Indescribable, as the Law Courts are situated in one of the busiest thoroughfares of Lisbon. ! People fled in all directions, many diving Into doorways, while vehicles were backed on to the pavements. ■ Two of the Judges, a woman and a child, were Injured, and several other persons received slight scratches from flying fragments or were knocked down and bruised. Fortunately no one was killed. I The assassins, two In number, escaped, in the confusion, with soldiers and police quickly after them. I One. finding that he could not shake off the pursuers, ran Into a house and up. a staircase, and, as a policeman dashed up, drew a revolver and fired. The policeman fell with a bullet wound In the leg on the landing, but was able to grapple with the assassin, and bold him until assistance arrived. The other man had by this time disappeared, and has not yet been captured. Four unexploded bombs were picked up "Central News." Mr. C F. Redden, president of a great American flying company, says that America, during the next few years, will experience a most remarkable development in aviation, '"'a development that will make the air routes in Europe seem insignificant." Last year the Aeromarrne Airways carried 9107 passengers over 739.047 miles, in 2125 flights. The company carried all kinds of merchandise, including the übiquitous Ford, "in a knocked down form." This ia the first time that a Ford car has been carried in an aeroplane.