Blast targeting train kills at least 20 in Pakistan

NEW DELHI, India, December 23. An attempt today to assassinate Lord Irwin, viceroy for India, failed when a bomb placed on the railroad tracks 10 miles from here exploded before a coach containing the viceroy and his party passed over. One man was injured in the explosion of the bomb, which occurred beneath the dining car, which the vice regal party had left only a few minutes before. The train did not even halt, but continued to Delhi, where Lord Irwin had important appointments with leading Indian Nationalists, among them Mahatma Gandhi. After speaking to the injured man he left immediately for his official residence. The bomb was placed on the rails and carefully concealed. It was set off by electricity conveyed through two cables about 500 yards in length. No arrests have been made. Examination of the track excited wonder that the train was not wholly wrecked, as the explosion blew out a section. Cars behind jumped the damaged part of the rail, however, and the train did not even have to stop. There is great political excitement in India this week, partly because of opening of the all-India congress at Lahore on Thursday. Previous Attacks Cited. The bombing is one of a series of attempts which have been made on Lord Irwin's life. A bridge was burned last April in front of a train on which he and Lady Irwin were travelling shortly after he had delegated unusual new parliamentary powers to himself. Previously two bombs were thrown into the government benches of Pa[rliament]