BOMB OUTRAGE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13350, 7 April 1914, Page 3

BOMB OUTRAGE.

DAMAGE IN CHURCH. (Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright! LONDON, April 6. Half*'an-hour after evening song at St. Martins-in-the-Fiolds, the police heard an explosion and found in the southern aisle pieces* of a bomb and remnants of a rubber bag. Two stained glass windows aud a pew were shattered. Suffragettes aro suspected. The churoh was filled with a dense smoke aud the fire brigade was summoned. A pew below the pulpit Mas blown up by a bomb which exactly resembled that used at St. John's Church' on March 2. During the service the occupants of, tho pew were a prominent church member and an woman aged about 35. ' A candlo had been inserted in the lid of a canister, and was apparently.! timed to burn 80 minutes before contact with the gunpowder. Some accounts say the canister containedi suffragette literature, and others tliat it contained clockwork. Militants who sought to distribute suffragist literature amoiig flaxmill girls at' Blackpool (Cork) were roughly handled. Tho girls assaulted them with their fists and tore their hats and hair down.