S-Plot

The illegal Irish Republican Army, determined to harass Great Britain into giving the six provinces of Northern Ireland to Eire, intensified its underground terrorist activities last week:

P: At Manchester, incendiary bombs set the five-story Kendal Milne Department Store on fire, caused damages of $2,500,000.

P: A large explosion and fire in an electric plant in London threw a section of the city into darkness.

P: At Coventry, a concert hall was destroyed and several stores were damaged by fire. Police discovered that toy balloons filled with nitric acid and placed in envelopes containing magnesium flash powder were being slipped under goods counters of the stores just before closing time. When the acid ate through the balloon, the magnesium would ignite and set the store on fire.

P: As if there were not already enough Irishmen in Britain to worry the bobbies, 5,000 more crossed over at week's end for the England-Eire rugby match at Twickenham. A bomb was found on the steamer, some 900 Irishmen were questioned.

P: A scantily-clad Mayfair trollop, "The Black Butterfly," was found stabbed to death. Police investigated whether she had been done in for blabbing I. R. A. secrets.

P: The I. R. A. terrorist campaign scored its first victory when the Northern Ireland Government reluctantly announced that the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Kent to Belfast had been indefinitely postponed.

P: Police found on one suspect a copy of what Scotland Yard officials called the '"S-Plot" or secret instruction issued by the I. R. A. Main points: Sabotage Britain's industrial life, join Britain's civilian defense corps to "look respectable," gain access to wartime supply depots, raise hell.

P: Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, once an I. R. A. leader himself, has kept discreetly quiet, content to disregard the bomb-planting of his old cronies so long as they did not plant any under him. Last week he received a letter threatening violence if he did not join up. The Prime Minister then instructed his Minister of Justice to rush through Eire's Parliament bills giving the Government power to arrest suspected extremists on suspicion, execute them after a summary trial before secret military tribunals.

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