BOMB EXPLOSION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24836, 9 February 1942, Page 6

BOMB EXPLOSION

TANGIER WHARF TWENTY-FIVE KILLED ANTI-BRITISH RIOTING (Rec. 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 8. -Twenty-five persons, including six British subjects, are reported to have been killed as the '< result of an explosion in Tangier. Sixty are reported to have been injured. A bomb exploded shortly after a- steamer from Gibraltar had left the wharf, departing earlier than usual. Martial law has been imposed in Tangier following anti-British rioting after the bomb explosion on the wharf. The British post office and leading hotels and shops were damaged. Windows were broken, goods looted, and British cars overturned. Moors stoned British subjects. The German News Agency says that the discovery of British arms contraband in Tangier has provoked indignation everywhere in Spanish Morocco and Spain. The new incident is officially considered as proof of the British disregard for Spanish sovereignty over Tangier, and proof of British plans to accumulate war materials for Gibraltar straits.