BOMB PLOTS
AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS IN JERUSALEM SOME TIMELY DISCOVERIES. UNLUCKY ARAB SERVANT KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, April 23. Bomb plots against senior British officers of police in Jerusalem were frustrated, reports a “Times'
correspondent. After the Assistant Inspector-Gen-eral of Police had backed his car from a garage in the German colony, an Arab servant picked up, in the driveway, two sticks of gelignite, bound with a detonator, which exploded. in his hands, killing him. Investigation showed that a bomb had been attached beneath the car, connected for explosion when the car’s ignition was turned on. Children later reported to the police a suspicious object on a road near the house of the Inspector-General of Police. An examination revealed that the object was a fuse bomb, filled with seventy sticks of gelignite, attached to a long wire, whereby it could be operated from an open field nearby.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1942, Page 4
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154BOMB PLOTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1942, Page 4
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