(1939-07-27) The Times of London - S-Plan Strikes Again
Details for S-Plan Strikes Again
Summary: Muggle Perspective on the deadly July 27 attacks.
Date: July 27, 1939
Location: London
Related: Terrorist Attacks Leave Diagon Alley Horizontal; Plot: Forgotten Shadows
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S-Plan Strikes Again

by Douglas Glass

July 27th, 1939

Once again the Irish Republic Army (I.R.A.) has struck again. Ever growing bolder with where they place their bombs. Since January of this year the I.R.A. has been terrorizing Britain. Targeting such places as power and water stations at first they then started to up the anty and bombed Williams Deacons Bank.

After the government upped security at these sort of facilities and began to closely inspect all shipments coming in from Ireland things got personal. While on a hunting holiday, the Prime Minister Chamberlains only son was targeted. A bomb disguised in a tobacco tin exploded in the lobby but harmed no one. The leader of the S-Plan Movement of the IRA, Sean Russell later disassociated himself and the S-Plan Project from this personal attack. Sean was quoted as saying,

"IRA Headquarters had no knowledge of this attack, nor would it order or countenance such an action".

In February after things grew even more serious after a list was discovered in Belfast late January that was names of Northern Ireland Officials that were targeted by the IRA for 'execution'. No longer targeting utilities the I.R.A. bombed Tottenham Court Road and Leicester Square Underground Stations. Though there were no fatalities two people were seriously hurt and severe damage was done to the station that are still under repair.

Shops in the London Suburbs and in Coventry faced brutal amounts of arson. Evidence to a plot to blow up Buckingham Palace were found in Belfast which created an elevated level of security at the palace. February 9th was also the first incident where bombs had gone off. No one was injured.

Between the months of April thru June over 50 bombs were detonated in London, Liverpool, Coventry, and Birmingham. There were no injuries, except for when tear gas was used in cinemas causing 40 injuries.

An unidentified amount of Irish Immigrants have been forced from their homes in the United Kingdoms. Some rightfully so, but it can be said that plenty of innocent Irishmen and women have fled Britain. Due to the Prevention of Violence Bill it is very easy for the British Government to expel anyone that they consider suspicious. Since I.R.A. bombers have included women and men, no one is safe from persicution.

On July 26th 1939, marked the second time Kings Cross Station was targeted by the Irish Republican Army. A suitcase bomb was left with the in-luggage. One man and couple of courtesy clerks were severely injured in the blast that sent shrapnel of suitcases and their contents everywhere. The man succumbed to his injuries and died moments before this article was finished. He is survived by a young daughter and his wife. There was a twin explosion in Victoria Station that occured at the same time, five were severely wounded and in both cases the stations took heavy damage. Both locations hosted dozens of more minor injuries, cuts from falling glass, shrapnel and temporary hearing loss and blurred vision.

Reports of recent bombings in Liverpool have just come in. The first bomb in a suburb blew up a swing bridge spanning the canal. The wreckage of the bridge fell into the canal, with the result that all barge traffic was halted. The second bomb completely wrecked the front and large sections of the inside of a post office in the centre of Liverpool. The third bomb went off in a park. No injuries were reported.

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