LONDON SHOOTING ‘Death list’ of Jews reported

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33422, 2 January 1974, Page 13

LONDON SHOOTING ‘Death list’ of Jews reported

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LONDON, January 1.

Policemen are guarding the homes of leading British Jews today as detectives hunt for the Arab guerrilla who tried to assassinate the prominent Zionist and chain-store president, Mr Joseph Sieff.

T An order has been in effect at all airports and seaports Ito stop and question Arabs attempting to leave Britain ! since the claim by the Popular Front for the Liberation jof Palestine in Beirut that it was responsible for the (attempt on Mr Sieff’s life on Sunday night. ■ j The head of the Marks and Spencer chain of stores is /reported to be conscious and • in a satisfactory condition I after emergency surgery to • remove a bullet from his (head. i Mr Sieff, who is 68, was I shot by an “Arab-looking” i gunman who is believed by . the police to have come to( London specially for his . macabre task. The would-be : I assassin asked to see Mri . Sieff at his home, and shot! him in the mouth at point-! /blank range. ' Scotland Yard intensifiedl /its security precautions after! a so-called “death list” of; British Jews was reported yesterday. Sir John Cohen, the founder! 'of the Tesco supermarket; chain, said that after the I j shooting of Mr Sieff, a Jew-i ish woman. whom he! declined to identify, had received a telephone call from: a man who told hen “You! are second on the list, and, I Sir John Cohen is third." |