SIGNALMAN'S FIGHT
SUSPECT ON RAILWAY INCENDIARISM IN STORES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. March 6. 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 5. A suspicious parcel was to-day opened hy Post Office detectives at the Victoria sorting office cad was found to contain two incendiary balloon bombs. The Sunday Dispatch says that the bomb was addressed to a high official of Scotland Yard. Experts are of the opinion that the package would bunt into flames about the time it was due for delivery. A signalman yesterday tackled a stranger with a parcel at Willesden Green on the railway embankment, down which they both toppled, the suspect escaping with three companions by a car from which a shot was fired.
It is assumed that the main line bridge was the objective.
Fires which occurred at 2 a.m. in two of Birmingham's largest department stores are ascribed to slow combustion material laid by incendiaries. The damage was slight.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19880, 6 March 1939, Page 5
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