CHECKING TERROR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 5

CHECKING TERROR

LAW IN BRITAIN SPEED IN PARLIAMENT MORE BOMBING PLOTS “PADDY REGAINS DINNER” WORKERS AS VICTIMS (Reed. July 29, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 28. The House of Lords passed the third reading of the' Prevention of Violence Bill and the House'of Commons agreed to their amendments. The Royal assent was given immediately. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir John Simon, under the Act, considered 30 cases and signed eight expulsion orders. , The Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, Sir Philip Game, and the provincial- chief constables' from the storm centres "discussed the detailed enforcement of the Act. A woman handed' in a parcel at an eating house in the Birkenhead docks, saying: “This 'is Paddy Regan’s dinner.” An attendant, hearing a tick.ng noise, opened the parcel and found a bomb set to go off at 12.30 p.m., when the hut would be full of workers having lunch. While the House of Lords was rushing through- (the Prevention of Violence Bill, empowering the police to conduct a vast round-up, members of the Irish Republican Army were striking final (blows. Dozens of public phones were put out of action in the West End during the morning. The police intensified their precautions throughout Britain as a result of information of last-minute bombings being planned. The -public have been excluded from the Houses of Parliament during the week-end. A number of detectives were ordered to be ready to travel by the 8.45 .p.m. boat train to Holyhead. ft is believed that the reserve fleet of destroyers may Convey deported persons to Dublin. At least 100 were marked down.

Three persons were remanded at Bow Street on charges connected with the King’s Cross bombings.