A PIECE OF STRING
A neat little detective story is told bv the London correspondent of the Birmingham ‘Post.’ There was recently an attempt at a bomb putrnge at the Soviet. Legation at Warsaw, and the matter was banded over, to a Polish detective. . . The only cine was a small piece ot string attached to the infernal machine, presumably as part of the fuse. The string appeared to be ol English manufacture. The detective travelled to England and succeeded in tracing the makers. From them he discovered that a consignment of similar string had been sent to Grodno. After another journey the detective took up the pursuit in that town. He found that a few yards of the string had been sold to a teacher of languages who, after spending some years in Russia, had gone to Poland, and had been in trouble with the police on suspicion ol complicity in subversive activities ot the Soviet. He had a Polish passport, and Jus wife was a Russian. The detective traced the man to Ju^o-&luvia ; ami there he lias been arrested.
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Evening Star, Issue 20612, 11 October 1930, Page 2
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180A PIECE OF STRING Evening Star, Issue 20612, 11 October 1930, Page 2
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