MILITANTS.
CONTINUE THEIR MISCHIEF. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, July 13. A bomb with a burning fuse attached was discovered while evensong was in progress in St. John's, /Westminster. Tlie bomb was <i canister nine inches high. It_«contained gunpowder and 'metal filings, and was timed to explode in .on hour. A .militant suffragette, Annie Bell, was arrested. She had been closely watched during the pa-st few Sundays, after being released under the Cat and Mouse Act. Shetold the Court that she intended to blow up the church. Suffragettes burned the railway station at Blaby. A postbag exploded in a. BlackpoolManchester train and ignited six bags, and a portion of the' van was burned. The guard was badly burned in extinguishing the fire. The outrage is attributed to suffragettes.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15398, 15 July 1914, Page 7
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