Terrorist Bombs Intended For London

Chronicle (Levin), 8 September 1947, Page 5

Terrorist Bombs Intended For London

Received . Sunday, 11 p.m. . LONDON, Sept. 7. • The police arrested a number of persons " after discovering six homem^de aerial bombs "with. which. it is suggested the Stern. Gang intend'ed to homb Lqpdon in reprisaj for the transport of Jews to Hamhurg. The bomhs, made frdm ftre extinguishers, were ahout 20 inches. long and had fins and fuses. Detectives yesterday arrested at an airport near Versailles Rabbi Baruch Korff and another nnidentiliea pnan and woman. Korif was about to board a plane and was carrying a suitcase full of pamphiets saying: "This is a waiming. We w.ill carry the war to the v pr y heart of the Empire. We are prepared to iight a wai: of iiberation no.w and avoid enslavement tomorrow." The police said Korff and his friends chartered the plane to flyr to London presumably to mahe a leaiiet 'raid. It is not known whether Korff 's arrest is connected with the discovery of the aerial bombs. Rabbi Korff, who- was a. fprmer cha-ir-man of the Political Action. Committee for Palestine, told the British United Press eorrespondent in Paris that the Stern Gang had newly-formed units in Eire and he presumed they were responsible for the bomb sent in a parcel from Eire tyhich injured two sorters on Wednesday in a post office in Westminster. Korff tlireatened Britain with more attacks of this kind if the Jews from Port de Bouc were landed in Germany. Fog has delayed until tomorrow the disembarkation of the Jewish illegal immigrants from the Ocean Vigour, the first of the thr.ee British ships to reaeh Hamburg from Port de Boue. British security officers boarded the three ships off Cuxhaven Harbour yesterday and sorted out inciters and possible terrorists. Reuter 's eorrespondent aboard the Ocean Vigour says soon after the ship left Cuxhaven about 1500 Jews informed the British eommander that they intended to start a hunger strike this morning as a protest against being taken to Hamburg. Lieut-Colonel Gregson, eommander of the eseorting troops in the three ships, reported "to the authorities at Hamburg that the Jews were willing to land quietly. If they didn't they would "lose face" through docksTde publieity.