WORK OF THE 1.R.A.?
SIX HOTEL FIRES
LONDON, May 20,
Three hotel fires occurred in Lancashire yesterday, one in Yorkshire, one at Eastbourne, and one at Margate. It is believed that they were started bymembers of the I.R.A.
In each case men booked rooms, in which they left suitcases, and disappeared, after which fires broke out. The police discovered paraffin and explosives.
EXPLOSION IN BELFAST
(Independent Cable Service.) (Received May 22, &. a.m.)
BELFAST, May 21
A bomb which was placed on a footpath blew" out the windows of a house near the centre of the city. The tenants escaped injury.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 9
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