MILAN OUTRAGE

Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 6

MILAN OUTRAGE

BOMB EXPLODES FOURTEEN PERSONS KILLED KING OF ITALY'S NARROW ESCAPE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, April 12. (Received April 13, at 10 a.m.) Fourteen persons were killed and forty injured as the result of a bomb explosion on the occasion of King Victor Emmanuel’s visit to Milan.

Tbo bomb was placed at the loot of a lamppost near the Piazza Giulio Gesare. It exploded with terrific force just before King Victor arrived. H© only reached Milan in the morning, to open the famous fair. Despite the outrage the King proceeded to carry out the official ceremony, afterwards driving to the grounds, visiting the more important pavilions, and fulfilling other engagements on the day’s programme. With the exception of a gala performance at the Scala Theatre the proceedings were not changed. The police are actively searching for the culprits. King Victor later visited the hospital and spoke to those who were injured in the explosion. The Piazza Giulio Cesare is a largo square near the entrance to the fair. A squad of Rome detectives has gone to Milan, whose mayor offers £I,OOO for information as to the perpetrators of the outrage.

Advices from Como state that a powerful bomb was discovered on the railway line over which Signor Mussolini was due to pass on his return to Rome. It had a thread attached, and the other end was held by a man who was discovered hiding near the track. He was arrested.—Australian Press As-sociation-United Service.