Bomb blasts in London

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33426, 7 January 1974, Page 11

Bomb blasts in London

I ()N I)()N, Januarv (>. I’hree bombs exploded and anothei was defused in a hit’!her wave ol terroi incidents in London \esterdav.

A Scotland Yard spokesman saitl I his morning that, in the absence of information to the contrary, it was assumed that the lush Republican Army was behind the blasts. Anonymous telephonecallers gave warnings to the police, and no-one was injured in any of the blasts, the first of which occurred in Madame Tussaud's Exh; bit ion. the waxworks mu seum in Marylebone Road Three minutes later, an other bomb went off in an £lB,OOO cruiser at the boat show at Earls Court, and a third bomb was defused out side the offices of a security

| tiiin onlx It* st < . it was due to go oft ' The third bla.-t oxcuued just before midnight i ■ * street off King's Road ( h > sea. start ling loca I and latt diners but <au . onlx -.light damage to a pi ' xate ho.is. It wa> the home ol Ma l ” General Philip Ward, wh helped to arrange Pttncc'- ' Anne\ wedding in Noxem A tew dax> befote ChriM - ma>. a book-bomb tntendi for him exploded and m lured a policeman alter i' was delivered to the wrong addies'. Two people al the I.ail' Court exhibition were treat! : 1 for shock. The bomb there 1 had been planted in the 'tern 1 compartment ■>{ a 40-toot [ crui'ei•. In all. four xacht ‘ were damaged, and gl.i" throughout the huge buildini: was shattered The bomb at Madame I it' saud's had been placed he 'ide a xvax tableau depict it ■ the Battle of Frafalgar. Sex eral hundred visitors were m the building when the warn ' ing was received Thex 101 l hurriedly, and escaped troin a blast so strong that it blew the two heavy front doors ol ’ithe building across the busx , Marylebone Road The present senes ol bla-t began last month, and so l o 73 people have been injurec by 24 bombs and explosix < devices.