BOMBS AS NEW YEAR PRESENTS

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6746, 2 January 1932, Page 7

BOMBS AS NEW YEAR PRESENTS

Italian Circles in U.S.A. Alarmed

POST OFFICE WRECKED

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 7.0 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 30. Nows from Easton (Pennsylvania) states that an apparent elaborate antiFascist plot to kill prominent Italian financiers, editors and diplomats throughout eastern United States, has been exposed with murderous results when one of a number of packages mailed in the local post office exploded killing two, injuring two, and wrecking tho interior of tho building. Later, a powder expert of the Dupont Company, who was examining another of the packages for detectives, was fatally injured when that also exploded. Bomb squads immediately rushed to protect those threatened. Postal officials aro carefully examining the mails in order to prevent further trouble. Among Fascist supporters to whom packages were addressed, wero ConsulGeneral Grazzi, of New York, two other consuls and an Argentine official. PLOT OF WIDE MAGNITUDE. Received Friday, 7 p.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. Almost hysterical fears have been aroused by the delivery of bomb packages, particularly following the delivery to-day by railway express, of a dynamite bomb marked silver-spoons, to Count Buzzi Gradenigo, Italian ConsulGeneral at Cleveland, the sender’s name thereon being that of the Consul’s close friond in New York.

Gradenigo immediately made a trunk lino telephone call and when he learned no package had been sent by his friend, tho police were summoned. The box was taken to a rifle range whero it was exploded with a long-distance rifio shot, boring a hole of 30 feet circumference in the ground.

At the same time a similar packet was sent to Oscar Durant, editor of the Italian Language newspaper, Chicago. It was refused acceptance by his employees and was hauled back and forth all day in a crowded loop district in a motor lorry before it could be apprehended by the police. The Italian Ambassador, De Martini, called at tho State Department to-day, after which prompt measures wore taken to protect Italian official representatives throughout the country from what is developing as one of the widest bomb plots ever discovered here. The police everywhere aro being stationea in homes of Italian representatives and prominent Italian-Americans in Chicago. PACKAGES INTERCEPTED Received Friday, 11.40 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. The police intercepted and successfully exploded four explosive packages in Chicago addressed to persons not revealed. Durante and officers of Associated Press are now attempting to head off a fifth bomb known to have been sent to Consul Castruccio. Further bombs were also received by Italian consuls at Detriot, Youngstown and Ohia. Heavy guards are set about the Italian and Argentine Embassies at Washington.