BUTLER ATTACKED
IN HOME OF POLICE COMMISSIONER LEFT BOUND & GAGGED. SUPPOSED I.R.A. OUTRAGE. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received. This Day, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 29. Two men bound and gagged a butler in the Regent's Park home of Sir Hugh Turnbull, Police Commissioner for the City of London, who is on a holiday with his family in the country. Other servants found the butler tied to a chair when they returned. It is believed the intruders were I.R.A. sympathisers who hoped to obtain valuable documents relating to- police information regarding I.R.A. movements in Britain. TEAR GAS BOMB. EXPLOSION IN LIVERPOOL THEATRE. (Received This Day. 9.0 a.m,). LONDON, May 29. Twelve persons were taken to hospital in Liverpool after the explosion of a tear gas bomb in a news theatre.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1939, Page 5
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