The International Police Commission in Paris was asked Scotland Yard today to have all police forces in Europe Join in the search for the arson or persons responsible for mailing a parcel bomb to Capt. Roy Alexander Farran which yesterday accidentally killed his brother, Rex, who opened the package. Mean smile, Capt. Farran has left his home at Wolver Hampton for an unknown destination.
Simultaneously, Scotland Yard instituted one of the greatest manhunts in recent British police history in an effort to find “Jewish terrorists” in Britain, who they believe may be responsible for the mailing of the bomb. Capt. Farran was acquitted last year of charges of killing m 18-year-old Palestinian Jew, Alexander Rubovitz. The Stern Group, which claimed the murdered Palestinian youth as a member of the organization, vowed to avenge his death at the time Farran was freed. One report said the Hebrew word for revenge was found in the parcel’s markings.
Scotland Yard announced, meanwhile, that it is on the track of an Arab band organized in this country for the purpose of smuggling arms into Palestine via Lebanon. Custom officials over the week-end seized two packages containing a large sum of mil-denomination currency addressed to persons resident in Britain, presumably for the payment of arms.
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