BOMBS FOUND IN MAIL

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27048, 25 May 1953, Page 9

BOMBS FOUND IN MAIL

Northern Ireland Incidents (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, May 38. A number of magnesium letter bombs addressed to political leaders m Northern Ireland were discovered early today at the Central Post Office, Belfast. Warning of their presence among the mail was given by the premature ignition of one bomb which caused a slight ?u e * The bornbs were similar to those the Irish Republican Army used in Its campaign of violence in England. They are believed to be part of an organised demonstration against the Coronation celebrations in Northern Ireland. A large plate glass window a shop containing a portrait of the Queen was smashed with stones last night. Police cars sped ttf Belfast’s nationalist quarter after the discovery of the bombs. Post Office chiefs ordered an immediate search of the city’s post boxes. The bombs are made from strips of magnesium attached to rubber pouches filled with acid. The police interrogated suspected I.R.A. supporters in the nationalist quarter, but no arrests were reported. Other incidents have been reported from several points in Northern Ireland. A postbox in Kilkeel, County Down, was blown up by a gelignite bomb yesterday and the door was sent flying 30 feet. An unexploded bomb was discovered in a second postbox. * I.R.A. supporters, who are bitter enemies of Britain, are believed to have reorganised recently and to be well supplied with arms and explosives.