SPAIN: Bombs

Last week, King Alfonso left Madrid, journeyed to Barcelona. En route, a large bomb, intended to blow up the royal train, was found on the railway tracks.

In Barcelona, the King went to preside at a meeting held in the Town Hall. In the entrance was discovered another bomb.

The active police became still more active, discovered a third bomb, in- tended to blow up the royal train as it passed through a tunnel on its return journey to Madrid. Fourteen arrests were made, but each of the prisoners denied all knowledge of the plot....

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