EXPLOSION KILLS FIVE

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22800, 28 August 1939, Page 10

EXPLOSION KILLS FIVE

IRISH TERRORISTS

BLAMED SERIOUS DAMAGE AT COVENTRY V PLOT AGAINST' GOVERNMENT' BUILDINGS, .-'J - (UJUITED ASSOCIATIOK—-COPTBIGHT-) (Received August 26, ; -10.30 a-mlL^-i LONDON, August 25. . A terrific .explosion, reduced the centre of Coventry to : a-shambles. Five were killed, 12 are detained in hospital, and 50 were slightly in-' jured. - ‘ ’ I-- ' The police believe that a of the Irish Republican Army placed a time-bomb; on a-tradesman’s tricycle which was left i standing:in'j3ie street. * ' Damage amounting to thousands;; ■ of pounds was caused to shop fronts . and windows in the chief thorough-. ■. r fare, Broadgate, which is ankle in shattered glass. Buses were damaged. ' ‘ The police questioned three per-- - - sons, who subsequently were allowed s: to go. TKey stepiqon *r< by running towards a motor-car, under the impression that a warjhad.'. No arrests have been made. The discovery of a-new Irish Re-vv publican 'Army plot to attack "Goyi; ernment buildings in London" has-. .. led to the police placing special guards over the Admiralty, the War, v Office, and the Ministry of Trans-, ,) port. s ■ A violent explosion, badly damaged the front of the Blackpool - Town Hall. Two bombs had previously been found nearby; r Two Irish Republican Army ex-.f.. plosions occurred in London at midnight. A man was arrested;