25 SEPTEMBER 1920, Page 2

A serious explosion occurred in Will Street, the financial quarter

of New York, at noon on Thursday week. A 'loaded -truck blew up outside Messrs. Morgan's banking-house. As the narrow street was crowded with clerks and messengers, 'many people were injured, and thirty-three, 'it is said, were killed outright. Messrs. Morgan's -premises and the adjacent buildings were damaged. The New York police believe that the-explosion -was caused by a powerful bomb, timed to go off at a given moment, and they attribute the outrage to the advanced Socialists, of whom -there are many in New York. A Russian Bolshevik was arrested on suspicion, and a New York lawyer who is said to have predicted the'explosion was taken in Canada and handed over to the American authorities.