Show TURKEY scene of bombing dramatic was the entrance of former bulgarian ambassador from england george W rendel into turkey after his flight from sofia rendel and his staff walked into the lobby of the pern palace hotel there was a flash a roar and the cries of wounded and dying the smoke cleared away to find rendel still unhurt several members of his staff wounded and two men killed one of them a turkish secret service man assigned to guard the ambassador bas twenty three in all were wounded by the blast which badly wrecked the room in which the crowd witt was gathered but as I 1 in the munich bombing which littler hitler escaped the chief target of the turkish bomb mr rondel rendel was unscratched ills his aides said there was no doubt that it was a deliberate attempt at assassination and its occurrence at the very time when turkey was debating its position in the expected forthcoming invasion of greece by the nazis served further to entrench istanbul on the front pages of the press Ren hendels dels attractive daughter 20 who was standing near the blast in the hotel lobby told the story in a few words when she said As tar far as I 1 could tell the floor just flew up she sha is a calm soul having driven her father through the streets of sofia during the german occupation in an automobile flying the british flag it was later revealed that tin an attempt was made to blow up the train on which rendel bendel and his party were traveling to istanbul this s was proven when it was found that the hand bags which contained the explosive had traveled on the train with the rendel party but failed to go off the nazis denied that the bombs had been planted on the train saying the rendel baggage had been loaded under the eyes of scores of gestapo agents however british sources later replied that another unexploded bomb had been found in baggage unloaded from the train |