Following the receipt of a number of anonymous phone calls to Jewish shopkeepers threatening that their premises would be blown up, Scotland Yard today instructed all police chiefs in the London area to conduct an extensive survey of all explosives stored in their precincts.
A number of sticks of geglinite were stolen from a storehouse in Ashford, Middlesex, last night. Police have advised construction firms who keep explosives in isolated areas to remove warning signs which inform passers-by of the presence of dynamite in order to cut down the possibility of theft.
A Member of Parliament has offered to guard the Hackney Dstrict synagogue here as a protest against recent attempts to burn Jewish places of worship. He is Larry Hynd, member for Central Hackney.
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