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BY INDIAN STUDENTS BOMB FOUND IN BRITISH MUSEUM (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, Ist February. Following a telephone message from a man giving the name of Alikhan, who declared that he overheard Indian students plotting to blow up the Indian room at the British Museum, the authorities made an .extensive search and discovered a circular package wrapped in a newspaper to which a fuse was attached, on the staircase near the Indian gallery. Scotland Yard is examining the bomb, which is obviously home made, with a view to determining whether it is destructive or a dummy. If the former the explosion would have caused irreparable damage to a superb collection of religious sculptures.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 February 1930, Page 5
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