ATTEMPT ON LIFE
BRITISH PESHAWAR ATTACK HOME SHOT UP & BOMBED (11 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. The Daily Telegraph's Peshawar correspondent reports that a deliberate attempt was made on the life of MajorGeneral Ross McCay, Peshawar area commander, early yesterday when rifle shots and six bombs were thrown at his bedroom. Tlie assailants operated; from under the cover of trees on a mound overlooking the barbed wire defences of General McCay's residence, the back of which was riddled with bullets while the bombs shattered part of the room. General McCay was not injured. The attack was made while the Viceroy, Lord Louis Mounbatten, and Lady Mounlbatten were in a house only a few hundred yards away. General McCay told a correspondent: “I was rewakened by explosions and rifle fire. I immediately went on to the verandah, where I saw flashes of rifles from the mound. Splinters were flying and I returned to the house. The attackers escaped.” It was General McCay who advised the Viceroy to attend the Moslem League demonstration and accompanied him to it.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 1 May 1947, Page 5
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