A terrible.outrage was committed at Milan. on Thursday, April 12th.
The King-was on..his way- to open the Inter-:. national Samples Fair when a bomb exploded near the principal entrance. , The King, however, against whose life the . " attempt " was no doubt directed; was still- some distance away. Most of the persons killed or fatally injured—about twenty in all—were women and children. The King bravely went through the appointed eeremony, and then drove to the hospitals to visit the injured. Apparently an anonymous warning had reached the police, who had arrested several suspected persons before, the ceremony, After the explosion hundreds of further arrests were made. It is said that the complicated machinery of the bomb proves it- to have been the. instrument of an organized group and not of a .casual. anarchist.
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