I.R.A. OUTRAGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 7

I.R.A. OUTRAGES.

BOMB EXPLOSIONS.

At Least 19 People Injured

In London.

SUNDAY DEMONSTRATION

(Received 1.30 p.m.)

LONDON", June 25

Bearing banners demanding the release of imprisoned Irish Republicans, '200 Irishmen and a few women marched past the scenes of Saturday night's explosions to Trafalgar Square, where they condemned British imperialism.

After a period of quiescence. the week-end was marked by further bomb explosions attributed to Irish Republican Army activities, following upon the banning of its operations in Ireland.

Bombs burst at the corner of Piccadilly Circus and Shaftesbury Avenue and elsewhere, constituting the mo«l daring outrage yet perpetrated in London.

At least 1!) people were injured. Oreat crowds were attracted to the various localities.

The first bomb exploded in front of a tobacconist's shop. It scattered cigarboxes and tins of tobacco over the pavement, shattered windows of the Westminster Bank, and threw a newspaper seller down the steps of the underground railway.

Onlookers state that two men drove up in a taxi and one of them threw something. The other man disappeared in the crowd.

Diners in an adjoining Chinese restaurant were much startled. The place was littered with broken glass. '

The second explosion occurred outside Lloyd's Bank. Piccadilly. This broke some windows. A taxi driver s«\v two men wearing rain coats dashing into the Piccadilly subwav station.

The third explosion was at the cornei- of Aldwych and Bow Streets, just as theatre crowds were dispersing. This littered tbe pavement with glass. There were cries of: "Lynch them," from theatregoers, some of whom dropped handbags and ran for their lives.

An explosion at tbe Midland Bank. Park Lane, blew out the front of the building and hurled the front door and a safe across the road into Hvdc Park.

Guests in adjacent fashionable hotels began to dress, lint were reassured.

Three men were taken to Vine Street Police Station.

An incendiary bomb burst in a pillar box outside Madame Tussand's waxworks in Marylebone Road. Xo one was injured.

Yet another bomb was found in a cloakroom at Oxford Circus station.

Nineteen persons were treated at Charing Cross Hospital as the result of the bomb explosions, and it is feared one will lose an eve.