Feb, 4.
Mr. Frank Biggs, the discoverer of the "bomb" in the British Museum, is detained at Scotland Yard.
It is understood that Scotland Yard is convinced that the whole fair, including the telephone warn-was a'hoax,.as the "bomb" consisted of a cigarette tin containing putty, fireworks, packings chiefly of gunpowder, and iron filings. The lid was securely, fastened down, with a fuse of string inserted in the tin.
Mr. Frank Biggs was chaiged today at Bow Street with being in' possession of explosive substances in such circumstances asto give rise to a reasonable suspicion that he had them for no Iawful object.
He was remanded on two sureties in £50, 'A Scotland Yard inspector gave evidence that, when charged, Biggs said: "What I-want to say is: I put this thing.down myself." this declaration the made a written Gowzva, Feb,'9:—The Council of the International Labour Office has accepted $12,000 from Mr. Arthur Young for the extension of research into. the industrial relations of various. countries.—Wireless through Reuter.
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