BOMB OUTRAGES.
▲ handful of determined men, skilled in the uh of explosives, could do enonnons damage in a few minutes' in a country so highly industrialised as England. It would be necessary that they eatch the community unawares. The men responsible for the bomb explosions in England evidently did succeed in keeping their intention secret, bat they fumbled and blundered in executing it. For that the people of the United Kingdom may B deeply thankful. They have had a war.u at a low cost, and the vigilance now should frustrate any further major' attempt at sabotage-. As to the origin. and motive of the outrages it is being said, without, w> far, definite proof, that the "terrorists" of the Irish Republican Army are attempting by violent means to force the British Government, into action to end "partition" in Ireland. If so, it was foredoomed to failure, and it will arouse exceptional resentment because, perhaps deliberately, the outrages have been committed at a critical stage in Britain's affairs. Time, and the development of mutual confidence, may bring Ireland's North and South together. Bomb explosions in England will only drive them further apart. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 15, 19 January 1939, Page 10
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