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The gelignite bomb whose discovery in a locker at
Sydney International Airport triggered off the train
of events in Wednesday's £235,000 hoax involving
[illegible] a Qantas Boeing 707 airliner.
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CLUES TO
QANTAS
HOAXER
By J.D. HOLDSWORTH
In Sydney
AUSTRALIAN police are
[hopeful] that they will
soon be able to trace [a]
Brown[?] and his accomplice
who hoaxed Qantas Airlines
into paying £235,000 ransom
money after a bomb threat
on Wednesday [illegible]
Close scrutiny of a bomb [illegible]
found in a locker at [Sydney]
Airport has yielded valuable [in-]
formation; they say. Examination
of tape recordings of the [Mr.]
Brown[?] voice on the telephone
has also given [clues to the]
national [illegible]
[illegible] information [illegible]
sources has given [them] leads
and [illegible] reward offered [will bring]
[tips] from the underworld.
The [serial numbers of the currency]
[illegible] phone calls [illegible]
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AN [ARTIST'S] PICTURE of [illegible]
borne [Boeing?] [illegible]
passengers, about £219[?]
The serial numbers of the
notes are known and lists are
being [published/circulated]...
All international police also
have been given a full des-
cription of the accomplice and
an [Identikit picture] has been
distributed.
The airline [said] the
handling of the ransom but
they were not [insured against]
such a loss and the money must
be written off. Their critics were
told by an airline spokesman
yesterday: "Go to [hell?]"