13 JUNE 1914, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IN Westminster Abbey on Thursday afternoon at about six o'clock a bomb was exploded in Edward the Confessor's Chapel close behind the Coronation Chair. The Chair and the Scone stone enclosed in it were only very slightly damaged, and no harm seems to have been done to the Chapel. The explosion is, no doubt quite correctly, attributed to the militant suffragists. The noise of the explosion was very great, and Lisa Abbey was filled with smoke. Luckily it was not a crowded hour, and though the visitors were frightened, there was nothing in the way of dangerous panic.
