REPORTED DISCOVERY AFTER TUBE EXPLOSIONS

Southland Times, Issue 23735, 6 February 1939, Page 7

REPORTED DISCOVERY AFTER TUBE EXPLOSIONS

BIGGEST ROUND-UP FOR YEARS IN BRITAIN

(United Press Association —Telegraph Copyright) (Received February 5, 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, February 5. More than 100 members of Scotland Yard flying squads are scouring Irish quarters throughout London for those responsible for the bombings at the tube stations. London’s entire police resources have been mobilized. The annual dinner of the social branch has been postponed, and all members have been called on duty to participate in the biggest round-up for years.

The police, in a raid on Irish Republican Army adherents’ houses in Belfast, are reported to have found plans to blow up Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, the House of Commons and the Bank of England. The documents are regarded as of sufficient seriousness to justify despatch by air to London. The outcome was a conference between the Home Office and officials of Scotland Yard.

The police are maintaining an all-night patrol of the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, where the King and Queen and the Princesses are spending the week-end. Four detectives guard the home of the Secretary for the Colonies (Mr Malcolm MacDonald) hear Chelmsford. Revolvers were issued to the Bristol Police after receipt of anonymous notes threatening the destruction of petrol tanks. Meanwhile, in spite of the presence of police at unexpected points, life in London is perfectly normal. There is no sign of apprehension. At Liverpool police are protecting the Mersey tunnel and the railway bridge. Fianna Fail (Eire Government) clubs throughout Donegal are urging the Prime Minister of Eire (Mr Eamon de Valera) to send troops to the border as a counterblast to theaction of the Prime Minister of Ulster (Viscount Craigavon) in arming the Ulster constabulary.