FIRE "BOMBS."
MANCHESTER DISCOVERIES
LONDON, January 2.
The Manchester police are investigating a series of suspected cases of incendiarism. This follows tho discovery in a furniture warehouse of an incendiary "bomb" which failed to ignite. Similar contrivances have been found in warehouses in the past few weeks. It is a simple affair and consists of a lighted cigarette, a few matches, a tram ticket, and a rubber band. All the other articles are wrapped around the cigarette in such a wny that within a few minutes tho cigarette lights the matches, then the celluloid bursts into a sudden fierce blaze, consuming all trace of the apparatus'. It is suspected that some recent mysterious fires were due to such contrivances, thrown by a fire maniac through warehouse gratings and windows.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1934, Page 7
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