BOMB PLANTED IN CLUB KILLS 20 RUSSIAN OFFICERS
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 15. Twenty sehior Russian officers, including General Verginn were killed on July 25 when a time-bomb exploded in a Russian officers’ club at Potsdam, according to the British controlled newspaper Welt Am Sonntag. The newspaper added that a German waiter planted the bomb in the restaurant of the club where a reception was to have been held for the Russian commander for Europe, Marshal Rokossovsky who did not arrive. The waiter who put the bomb in a drawer in the restaurant is still at large and the other 45 waiters employed there have not returned to their families since the incident.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23025, 16 August 1949, Page 5
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113BOMB PLANTED IN CLUB KILLS 20 RUSSIAN OFFICERS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23025, 16 August 1949, Page 5
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