WOMEN WITH BOMBS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15233, 21 February 1913, Page 7

WOMEN WITH BOMBS.

NEW SUIFMGEETB TACTICS LLOYD-GEORGE'S HOUSE WRECKED. SECOND BOMB FAILS TO ACT. EFFORT TO BURN BUILDING. . CLUES FOR THE POLICE. . TWO HAIRPINS FOUND. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright London, February 19. An attempti has been made, apparently by suffragettes, to destroy with bombs an unfinished house at Walton-on-Hill (Surrey), which is' being erected for Mr. Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the. Exchequer), i At six o'clock this morning the gardener heard a terrific explosion, which wrecked the upper portion of the building, driving the windows of the bedroom in which it originated 25 yards from the wall. -

It was found that a second bomb had been left in a cupboard in a corridor. This consisted of seven onepound tins of black powder bound with rope/ the fuse consisting of a piece of rag, covered with paraffin and connected with a candle placed on paraffined shavings timed to explode before the workmen appeared 'at 6.30 a.m.

The explosion in the bedroom, however, blew out the candle, and (the bomb, therefore, did not go off.

V A quantity of paper soa,ked in piraffin and distributed in the rooms wis ignited, but the flames were extinguished. : ' %& perpetrators entered the building by a window at four o'clock, and % is believed that they motored from he scene towards London" after the erosion. Two hairpins form the chief clue on whicVfche police are working. Police? -patrolling the adjoining golf links \ inspected the house at midnight}«iwhen everything was secure, The building, which was nearly finished, will largely require rebuilding. V Mr. is at present on a holiday atthe Biviera. In .an interview. in London to-day, Mrs Drummoni, a, prominent suffragette leader, hid: "I think it's grand, i Mr LloWi-Qeorge will realise that things are}g<jtting serious. I advocate all militancy short of the sacrifice of hornet life."