BELFAST BLAZE

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 17

BELFAST BLAZE

Blast in I X i fX ZP \ BELFAST. Feb. .'. A fireman and two ambi. ilancemcit were hurl last night when fire-bombs Ihuge tire in Belfast's mam (railway station The root of Great Victoria Stati in, and a side wall collapsed jin the blaze. Firemen were hampen d bx reports of more bomb- hid (den inside the station The blaze began when a blast occurred in a snack bai. and a second explosion demolished a row of tele phone kiosks. z \ bomb left inside a dutt< bag wrecked the mam pest office in the border town of Newry yesterday, and dam aged the nearby Roman Catholic cathedral, but noone was injured. Two young men placed the hag on a counter inside the post office, and then shouted warnings that it would blow up. enab line employees and < ii<tomt t .to flee before the blast The police have lightered security on members of the Northern Ireland x (after a purported Protestant (extremist threat of assassin ations unless the Assemble (halts violence bv the outjawed Irish Republican (Army. A telephone caller claim ling to represent the (lister Freedom Fighters, told two Belfast newspapers: “Mt m hers of the Northern Ireland Assembly will be shot down (if they do not use their influ ence to halt the I.R A.'s cam inaign of violence. There will (he double and treble revengt (for every Protestant, soldier, or policeman killed bx the 1.R.A., and if the Republican campaign does not stop, we will turn to bombing, for which no warnings will be given.”