PLOTTERS FOILED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19985, 10 July 1939, Page 5

PLOTTERS FOILED

WHOLESALE BOMBINGS PLAN OF I.R.A. SEIZED ZERO HOUR ON SUNDAY BIG CITIES OF ENGLAND (Elec. Tel. Copyright—Uuited Press Assn.) (Reed. July 10, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. The police were watching London buildings during the week-end owing to the discovery of a pamphlet circulated in England and Ireland detailing the progress of the Irish Republican Army’s campaign, declaring that the bomb outrages would be increased and emphasising that the training of the present campaigners would be invaluable when England’s difficulties increased.

The pamphlet denies that German gold is financing the campaign and points out that df American skill and German technicians had been available the results would have been more proficient.

The pamphlet threatens the intensification of operations in revenge dor any act of English aggression. It adds that 100 members of the Irish Republican Army were captured and three had been lost through an explosion.

A prisoner discharged from Dartmoor gave Scotland Yard the information that further intended outrages were planned in prison, these affecting the London provinces.

The complete plan of the Irish Republican Army’s future campaign was seized in a house visited by the police in the northwest of London. A man who had been staying in the house disappeared, n few minutes before the arrival of the police.

Zero hour for the wholesale bombings in London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds was 11 p.m. on Sunday.

The objectives were mainly power stations, gasworks, waterworks and railways. Definite instructions were given * that every effort must be made to prevent lass of life.

The documents reveal that great aid is coming from Clannagael. America, without whose help the Irish Republican Army couid not embark on a sustained campaign.