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Socialist Challenge No. 191, 2 April 1981 · p. 16 of the scan · 124 words

The scan: sc-n191-apr-02-1981.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 1-1 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 16 of the scan

I tried to ring the fire brigade but couldn't get through. Then front window exploded, setting ire to une books in shop. One of the SWP members tried to use the fire extinguisher, but it was useless the petrol had taken hold.

The shop rapidly filled with smoke. We ran upstairs and managed to get out of a first floor window onto an adjoining root.

shouted to people from the roof to get the police and the fire brigade. While I managed to scramble down a 20 foot wall, the others were rescued by the fire brigade.

The fire-bombing was a deliberate attempt to kill Pegisterd by animal nearises, Po Box 50. 0 Printed by East End Offset (TU) Ltd, London E2