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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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In London on April 16, a bomb threat targeted the War Office hours after a timed bomb was found at the Colonial Office, possibly in retaliation for the hanging of Jewish underground agent Dov Bela Gruner in Palestine, amid Jewish terrorist activities.
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LONDON, April 16.-(AP)-Scotland Yard officers rushed to the War Office late today following a telephone threat that the building was to be blown up--a threat that came a few hours after a home-made bomb, timed to explode this morning, was found in a branch of the Colonial Office.
Nothing suspicious was found at the War Office, however, and the police were unable immediately to link the telephoned threat with the actual leaving of explosives at the Colonial Office, possibly in retaliation for the hanging of convicted underground agent Dov Bela Gruner at dawn today in Palestine.
A Colonial Office spokesman said the blast attempt was part of the Jewish terrorist activities against this country."
Police said that the bomb was composed of 24 sticks of a French explosive resembling gelignite-not as powerful as they believed at first when they reported the bomb could have wrecked the entire four-story building.
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London
Event Date
April 16
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no explosion occurred; nothing suspicious found at war office; bomb at colonial office defused, composed of 24 sticks of french explosive resembling gelignite, not powerful enough to wreck the building
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Scotland Yard officers rushed to the War Office after a telephone threat to blow up the building. A home-made bomb, timed to explode that morning, was found in a branch of the Colonial Office. The threat possibly in retaliation for the hanging of convicted underground agent Dov Bela Gruner at dawn in Palestine. A Colonial Office spokesman described the blast attempt as part of Jewish terrorist activities against the country. Police could not immediately link the threat to the bomb.