JEWISH TERRORISTS BELIEVED RESPONSIBLE
Received Thursdav, 1 p.m,. LONDON, June 4. The Daily Telegraph says that agents in Italy of the Jewish terrorist organisations are believed to have sent the letters containing miniature bombs to orominent people in Britain, including Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Mr. Strachey and Major-General Sir Edward Spears, | who was the former British Minis-
^ter to Syria and th'e Lebanon, Mr, J, Freedman, Under-Secretary ta the War Office, another general, and Sir Stafford Cripps. ■ The plot was discovered last I nig'ht when some.one opened the .letter designed for Mr. Greenwood, ►because it was incorrectly addressj ed. Inside was a second envelope i containing a miniature bomb, with i a detonator, an explosive charge and two terminals which, if a , metal object such as an envelope i opener had contacted them, would j cause an immediate explosion | powerful enough to kill.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 June 1947, Page 5
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