Arrested For Planting Colonial Office Bomb

Northern Advocate, 14 June 1947, Page 5

Arrested For Planting Colonial Office Bomb

RELATIVE OF MOLOTOV

(Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, June 13. “ESTHER,” the woman who left a bomb at the Colonial Office on April 16, has been found, says the Evening Standard. She is now in gaol on the Continent. Senior Scotland Yard officers and officials and the Director of the Public Prosecutions Department met to discuss legal problems arising from her arrest.

The woman, who is a Jewess, claims French nationality. Scotland Yard special brancli officers who have been investigating Jewish terrorist activities, are satisfied that the man who made the bomb is also under arrest.

Reuter says that Inspector Wilkinson, of the special branch, went to France on June 12 and continued inquiries regarding the bomb planted at the Colonial Office.

French police ordered a search of the home of Elizabeth Lazarus, who was reported to be a Jewish girl arrested in Belgium. CARRIED IN SUITCASE She is alleged to have carried letter bombs in the false bottom of a suitcase. 1 The order was made after Scotland Yard chiefs conferred with the French police. A high French police official stated that Lazarus and a man named Jacobs, who was arrested with her, were still in custody in Belgium. The British United Press Paris correspondent says that Elizabeth Lazarus, who is alleged to be implicated in the Colonial Office bomb plot is a grand-daughter of the Russian composed, Scriabin, through whom she is related to M. Molotov, Her father, the composer Daniel Lazarus, is technical director of Vie Paris Opera House. Sip is better known under the penname of Betty Knut. Vichy militiamen assassinated her mother at Toulouse during the war.

New facts brought to light link it with the bomb incident at the British Embassy in Rome on December 31.