1939-04-22 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 22, 1939.

MOTOR BLOWN TO BITS IN STREET OF EDGBASTON: MOVING CAR BUT NO DRIVER

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Considerable damage and wide-, Laboratory, for examination. spread alarm were caused by an ex-was assisted by explosives experts of plosion which blew a motor-car to Scotland Yard. pieces in one of the main through- fares of Edgbaston, suburb of Bir- mingham, Unusual features of the explosion are:

There was no sign of any body in the debris of tar.

The vehicle was moving near the crown of the road at the time.

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WINDOWS SHATTERED The 'explosion occurred at the cor- ner of Princes-road and Balsall Heath-road, Edgbaston.

So great was the force that build- ings in the vicinity were shaken and windows of houses in a 200-yard radius were shattered. In one house close to the scene, doors were blown from their hinges.

It is concluded that the vehicle must have been unoccupied, although in motion. The police hold the

Several people suffered from shock view that the explosion and another and a woman several hundred yards: which occurred in a house close to away was knocked down by concus the scene are connected with the ac-sion.

tivities of the I.R.A. sympathisers. All that was left of the car was Five men who accompanied police two wheels, wreckage of the engine officers to the police station left and pieces of the bodywork, A later.

hole more than Ift deep was blown in the road.

Identification plates of the car and an alarm clock were found near the scene They were taken to Dr. Webster, of the Midlands Forensic

NO PEACE IN PROSPECT

Half a dozen fire-engines answered a brigade call, a cordon of police officers and detectives was hurriedly thrown round the spot and all available C.I.D. men were sent to investigate.

BRIGADE CALL

A second explosion is understood to have occurred in a house near the spot and the fire brigade dealt with: an outbreak of fire there. Occupants were rescued by ladder from second storey windows. The outbreak was quickly extinguished.

Chungking, Yesterday. Referring to the declaration by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek that under present circumstances no possibility A woman resident in Balsall of concluding peace exists, the Health-road, stated that she heard Chinese press emphasises that three distinct explosions.. "The first, China is as determined as ever to was very violent," she said. "It continue resistance to: Japan.

broke all the windows of my house. Chinese newspapers categorical- | After some minutes there was an- ly deny that there is any truth in other explosion, then a third. rumours that the visit of the Brit- ish Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, to Chungking, is with the object of making a new British effort at mediation between Japan and China and take the standpoint that, in her own interests and in view of the critical state of affairs in Europe, Britain finds the present stand of China against Japan in support of her own policy.

The British Ambassador himself has denied that his visit has any special significance.-Trans-Ocean.

FRANCO TO CENTRALISE

Burgos, Yesterday.

"It is possible that the last two were connected with the first but the sounds appeared to originate in districts further away."

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cars travelling along Prince's-road at the time were damaged. One driver had amazing escape. He told me that although every window of his small car was shattered and he was hit by debris, lie was unscratched,

COUNT TELEKI AT VATICAN

Vatican City, Yesterday. Various Spanish Ministries and The Hungarian Premier, Count Government departments which Teleki, and the Foreign Minister, have, hitherto, been scattered in Count Czaky, were received by different towns, notably Burgos, Pope Pius XII in audience yester Valladolid, Bilbao and Santander, day.

will be transferred to Madrid in His Holiness, recalled his visit to the first fortnight of May.

Budapest last year as Legate of Concerning the victory celebra- the late Pope Pius XI to the tions on May 15, besides the great Eucharistic Congress and express- military parade, there will be a

ed fervent wishes for the moral review of women's Falangist .or-"

and material welfare of Hungary. ganisations. Trans-Ocean..

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The Hungarian Statesmen pre- sented the Fope with a painting representing the Papal Legate, Cardinal Pacelli, - at prayer bo fore the crown of St. Stephen in | Budapest.

Count Teleki and Count Csaky afterwards called on the Cardinal. Secretary of State, Monsignoro Maglione, who returned the visit at the Hungarian Legation to the Holy See::

The Hungarian Statesmen were subsequently the guests of the Grand Master and Knights of the Order of Malta at a luncheon. Trans-Ocean,