BOMB EXPLOSIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1939, Page 7

BOMB EXPLOSIONS

LONG-PREPARED CONSPIRACY

POLICE DISCOVERIES

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

LONDON, January 21. The police are of the opinion that many Irishmen who came to England in the last 12 months got manual work at. strategic centres to survey the ground and choose the likeliest places for an attack. Many anonymous letters, some threatening and some giving a warning in regard to the next points for bombing, are now reaching the newspapers and police, hu,t the police do not; attach much importance to these. 'J ho police are working on the theory that a. number of Irishmen living semi-permanently in England aro helping the plotters, either directly or indirectly. HANGARS THREATENED. (Recd. January 21, 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 20. John Healy, aged 40, an Irishman, was remanded in custody till January 26, at Bow Street, on a charge of being in possession, .for an unlawful purpose, of two tons of potassium chlorate and a ton of black oxide of iron.

After the receipt of an anonymous telephone message, conveying warning of an attempt to blow up the hangars at Hendon, all planes moored in the open at the aerodrome were strongly guarded. RANGOON ATTEMPT. ' (Received January 21, S a.m.) RANGOON, January 20. A bomb was thrown at the Premier’s car, wherein his children were riding. Nobody was injured. Arising out of the attack, three Buddhist monks were charged with attempted murder. The Burma electric supply company declines to replace broken street lamps, or restart normal transport services, “until the authorities resume responsibility for maintaining order.”