TOWNSVILLE SHAKEN BY BOMB.
EVIDENT ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP ' building. DAMAGE CAUSED IN MANY PREMISES. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) BRISBANE, Thursday. • The bomb outrage within a week Occurred at Townsville, when a bomb tore a large hole in the wall of Beak House. Nearly every window in the building was broken, and the force of the explosion smashed windows in the Central Grand and Queensland Hotels, some two hundred yards away. The -main business portion of the city was "shaken. Most of the damage was done in the premises known as Canning Casket Corner, where all the large windows were broken and the interior damaged. Indications point to the that an attempt w&e made, to blow up the whole of Beak House building, though police were on ‘street duty only fifty yards away,, '
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1933, Page 5
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