FIVE KILLED
COVENTRY EXPLOSION 62 PF.OPI.F. INJURED I.R.A. BOMB BELIEVED TO BE THE CAUSE ID P.A.— By Electric Telegraph—Oopylghtl LONDON, 26th August. Five are dead and twelve are in hospital. and fifty were slightly wounded as a result of the Coventry explosion which reduced the centre of Coventry to a shambles. The police believe that a member of the I.R.A. placed a time bomb on a tradesman's tricycle which was left j : standing in the street. Police question- | ed three persons, who subsequently i were allowed to go. They had excited , suspicion by running towards a motorcar under the impression that war had started. No arrests have been made. The discovery Of a new I.R.A. plot to attack Government buildings in London i led to a special police guard at the Ad- ! miralty. War Office, and Ministry of I Transport.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 28 August 1939, Page 6
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