HOME-MADE BOMB
PACKAGE FOUND IN BRITISH MUSEUM SUPPOSED INDIAN PLOT LONDON, Sunday. As. the result of a telephone message from a stranger, who gave his name as Ali Khan, and declared that he had overhead Indian students plotting to blow up the Indian room in the British Museum, the authorities carried out an extensive search. They discovered a circular package wrapepcl in a newspaper to which a fuse was attached, on a staircase near the Indian Gallery. Detectives from Scotland Yard are examining the bomb, which obviously is home-made, with a view to determining whether it is destructive or a dummy, if it is destructive and had exploded ;it would have caused irreparable damage to the superb collection of religious sculptures. Scotland. Yard subsequently stated that the bomb undoubtedly contained explosive matter, but the extent of this would not. be determined until the Home Office experts had analysed :.t.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 887, 3 February 1930, Page 9
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149HOME-MADE BOMB Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 887, 3 February 1930, Page 9
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