BOMBS SENT TO BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25206, 10 June 1947, Page 7

BOMBS SENT TO BRITAIN

CLAIM MADE TO REPORTER TWO PERSONS SAID TO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED LONDON, June 8. In a chance encounter with a correspondent of the Associated Press at the Genoa railway station a man giving his name as Ami Kam, who claimed to belong to the Stern Gang, said that he personally had mailed 24 letter bombs to leading persons in Britain from the Central Post Office in Turin. One was addressed to King George of England. Ami Kam added that he was about to leave for Venice, Trieste, and then Athens. He gave an exact description of the letters containing the bombs, including some details not yet published in the Italian newspapers. He said each envelope contained 190 grammes of explosive, enough to kill anyone who opened it. Aw explosion occurred only on the contents being exposed to the open air, which explained why they did not explode when post office workers cancelled the stamps. He said that no more letter bombs would be posted. The system had become too well known, but the Stern Gang would turn to other methods. The correspondent says that he met the same man five months ago, when the man called at a Genoa newspaper office to tell about the work of the Jewish underground. The Turin police said that investigations revealed that the letter bombs were not posted in Turin. They suggested that the Italian postmarks were forged. Italian police and Scotland Yard officers now in Italy are testing this theory. A woman was arrested on a ParisBrussels train to-day with 10 letter bombs in her possession, says a Brussels newspaper. The woman had the letter bombs concealed in the false bottom of a suitcase. The police also arrested a male accomplice. The woman told the police that she belonged to a secret organisation.