BOMBS IN ENGLAND

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20729, 13 February 1939, Page 7

BOMBS IN ENGLAND

FIRES ON A STEAMER THE WORK OF INCENDIARISTS SEVERAL PERSONS DETAINED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 11 Fires which are believed to have been the work of members of the Irish Republican Army broke out on the steamer St. David after her arrival at Fishguard, with 1000 Irish passengers, most of whom had come to attend the international Rugby match England v. Ireland. Fire balloons containing nitric acid were -ignited by magnesium flash powder placed under seats in the third class saloon. Detectives searched all passengers before the departure of trains for London and the search was renewed at Paddington, where seven persons, including a woman, were detained. After a reported threat from the I.R.A. troops are guarding the Colchester barracks. Detectives says there is nothing at the moment to show that the I.R.A. was connected with a fire which destroyed Manchester’s largest fivestorey, one-acre department store after it had been closed. They are investigating a story that explosions were heard. Further Outrages A bomb fashioned to look like a cocoa tin was thrown over a wall of the Portsmouth power station. It missed the vital plant and exploded without doing any damage. What is believed to have been an attempt to blow up the main northern railway line between Darlington and Newcastle was frustrated by an unemployed miner, says the independent Gable "service. He saw two men behaving suspiciously and gave the alarm. A box of gunpowder was found on the line.