BOMB EXPLOSION

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1932, Page 8

BOMB EXPLOSION

ATTACK ON DAIRY-

RESULT OF A PRICE WAR

MIDNIGHT SENSATION

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ' '!, CEBISTCHUBCH, This Day. "

A daring attempt to blow up thai premises of the Milk Coupon Company; ' in Maldon street was made at midnight last night. " : "•."■•■ The noise awakened nearby residents, who dashed out and saw two men" rid-: ing off on a motor-cycle. • . Mr. J. Hartigan, whose dwelling'ad^ "" joins the dairy, hurried out on hearing the, explosion, and was shortly afterwards joined by a constable, who had '"'■' also heard the report. Mr. H. Fentoii, Tan employee of the company^ heard the explosion, although his house is: fully- ": 300 yards from the dairy. Many others living within a quarter of a mile were .. also awakened./ ':~-'~.■'''.-■ '"-:.. It was found that the lock had beea filed off the side door of the dairy. - : ' The force of the explosion was showi by the fact that several holes were blown in the ceiling. A number tof bottles was" broken, and milk/drums ":: were damaged and overturned, the milk in some cases being lost. "Windows were broken and parts of the "separator were damaged. " : • ' .-■ A director of the company says that ' some time previously two trucks belonging to the- company were tipped into the river, and,he believes that the explosion was a result of hostility duo to price-cutting in. milk. • ■ , MOTIVE CONJECTUBED. _ It is believed that a-bomb was"placed in the building with the idea of:hampering the business, and'not with the motive of doing, bodily harm to any of those connected .with the company. There was no one in.the building whett' the explosion occurred. ' ; ' r ■ ; Several pieces of galvanised iroii were found" this morning, also a piece of burnt-out fuse. These, when puftogether roughly, showed'that a 1 pipe ■ socket had been. used in"the making; of the bomb. " The police believe that v gelignite was the explosive used in the bomb, that it was packed into :the; pipe •' socket, .and that a fuse and. detonator V - were inserted through the neck of the socket to provide the spark that caused ---S the explosion. The pieoe'pf fuse found ■;; this morning was about a-foot in length. J It was of the slow-burning type, and ' ' would give the persons responsible for "'' the attempt to blow up the dairy plenty of time to get clear, before tho explosion occurred. ' ... !:' -~ /-: