(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Theophile Olshanski, the Ukrainian nationalist who saved the life of Stanislaw Steiger by confessing that it was he who threw the bomb at the Polish president in Lemberg on September 5,1924, left here for Mexico.
It was recently reported that while in Berlin, Olshanski was attacked by Polish students who reproached him for having made his confession.
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