PYLON SAVED WIN A CLOCK STOPPED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 15, 19 January 1939, Page 11

PYLON SAVED WIN A CLOCK STOPPED.

BOMBS TIED TO LEGS. Suspects Are Charged and Remanded. ABBEY BEING GUARDED. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 18. Three home-made bombs were discovered tied to the legs of a pylon at trankley, near Birmingham. The bombs were connected by flex to a suitcase containing an alarm clock, | which had stopped, thereby prevent'I ing an explosion. Polioe and the Pensions' Association ere gunrdiiig Westminster Abbey as a precaution against bombing. Another outrage has been reported from the Midlands near Coles Hull Warwickshire, whore a pylon was discovered with one leg cut off and the other intact. Explosives attached to the undamaged leg had not exploded. Many Arrests. After a night of ceaseless activity by the Criminal Investigation Department, the Manchester police announced that seven men had been detained in connection with the bomb outrages throughout England on Monday. Meanwhile three special officers concerned with political crime, who had been all night inquiring in London, called at a house in the north-west of London, after which three men, believed to be Irish, accompanied them to a police station. The men arrested at Manchester were: —Michael Hoy Campbell, aged 21, of Belfast; Patrick Deviney, aged 25; Jack Glenn, aged 23; Patrick Walsh, aged 32; Joseph Broderick, aged 30; Denis Dugan, aged 33; Patrick O'Connell, aged 23, all residing in Manchester and the neighbourhood. At Bow Street Police Station Lawrence Lyon, against whom a police sergeant had given evidence that he had discovered a rifle and ammunition at his residence in Willesden, was remanded. George B.andon Kane was remanded after evidence had been given that a revolver and three cartridges had been discovered under his bed. Charles James Casey was remanded after evidence had been given that two revolvers and a pistol, and 70 rounds of ammunition had been found in his flat. ' Daniel Fitzpatrick, Jack Logue and Francis James Burns were placed in the dock together. Detective Inspector Bridges said they had been arrested owing to what was found in a room they shared in Camden Town. Fitzpatrick said: "I am the only one knowing anything about the stuff." Substance of Charges. John Francis Wharton was remanded •iter the police had given evidence concerning unspecified discoveries in his rooms in the Camden Road. Lyon Kane and Casey were charged witn being in possession of arms and ammunition with intent to endanger life. Fitzpatrick, Logue and Burns were charged with being concerned together in the possession of explosives and also live copies of the Irish Republican Army's proclamation. Wharton was charged with being in possession of an explosive substance. All were remanded until January 26.

EXPLOSIVES FOUND. Large Quantities In Houses Of Suspects. ONE SHOUTS DEFIANCE. Independent Cable Service. LONDON, January 18.

The men arrestea at Manchester were charged under the Explosive Sub•tancee Act with "knowingly having in their possession or under their control six barrels each containing a hundredweight of potassium chlorate, & quantity of powdered charcoal, 40 sticks of gelignite, a box of candles, a solidified composition of paraffin wax and potassium chlorate, and other substances, in such circumstances as to give rise to the reasonable suspicion that they did not have possession for a lawful object." A police superintendent gave evidence that he found seditious literature in certain of the accused's houses. They were remanded for a week. Glenn protested, declaring that they were not associated with the explosives. Hβ said: "Apparently we were arrested because we are Irish." Campbell, on leaving the dock, shouted: "Wβ must protest against the English occupation ef Ireland." The police intimated that they would probably ask for a further remand on January 25.

COMMENT IN GERMANY. ENGLISH IN A PANIC. LONDON, January 18. The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that German newspaper* give prominence to the bombing outrages. "Der Angriff comments: "When the satiated fcnglish read the news over their opulent breakfast tables, they were in such a panic that their beef steaks fell from their forks." The more terioue papers consider the outrages represent a new «P»«fe in Ireland's centuries-old fight for freedom.