TIMELY WARNING.
BOMB IN BRITISH MUSEUM.
REPORTED INDIAN ATTEMPT. (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, February 2. Following a telephone message from a stranger giving the name of All Khan, who declared that lie had overheard Indian students plotting to blowup the Indian Room at the British Museum , the authorities made an extensive search and discovered, a circular package wrapped in newspaper, to which a fuse was attached. It was under a staircase near the Indian Gallery. . . . .
Scotland Yard officials are examining the bomb, which is obviously homemade, with a view to determining whether it is destructive or a dummy. If an explosion had occurred it would have caused irreparable damage to the superb collection of religious carvings.
UNDOUBTEDLY EXPLOSIVE. STATEMENT BY SCOTLAND YARD. (Received This Day. 1.55 p.m.) LONDON, February 2. Scotland Yard has issued a statement that the bomb found in the British Museum undoubtedly contained explosive nmtter, but its extent cannot be stated until it has been .analysed by the Home Office.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 96, 3 February 1930, Page 5
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