I.R.A. AGAIN ACTIVE

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 November 1939, Page 8

I.R.A. AGAIN ACTIVE

EXPLOSIONS IN LONDON. (BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, November 19. Irish Republicans in a taxi drove through the West End during a blackout amid driving rain and placed six bombs, causing four explosions, between 8.30 and 9 p.m. The police found and extinguished two bombs. A feature of the incidents was the apathy of the public as a whole, in spite of the fact that they heard the explosions, which first occurred opposite the Plaza Theatre, near Piccadilly Circus. But it was the rapid arrival of fire engines rather* than the explosion which attracted the crowd. Some glass was broken and a piece of masonry was dislodged from a parapet. Nobody was hurt. The second explosion blew a window at No. 56 Piccadilly Circus into the street and threw twisted shutters across the pavement. The other explosions occurred at the corner of Piccadilly, Park Lane, and Regent Streeit. Minor damage was done.

The unexploded bombs were of the balloon and acid type. One was fountj in a Park Lane shop window and the other in the advertising office of the “Daily Express.” HUNGER-STRIKERS RELEASED. LONDON, November 18. Richard McCarthy and John Lynch, v/ho went on a hunger-strike at the Arbour Hill Military Prison in Dublin, on November 10, have been released from custody, being in a very weak condition. They have been taken to a private nursing home.