GREAT BRITAIN: S-Plot

The illegal Irish Republican Army, determined to harass Great Britain into giving the six provinces of Northern Ireland to Eire, intensified its underground terrorist activities last week:

¶ At Manchester, incendiary bombs set the five-story Kendal Milne Department Store on fire, caused damages of $2,500,000.

¶ A large explosion and fire in an electric plant in London threw a section of the city into darkness.

¶ At Coventry, a concert hall was destroyed and several stores were damaged by fire. Police discovered that toy balloons filled with nitric acid and placed in envelopes containing...

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