The "S-campaign" against civil, military and economic infrastructure in England lasted from 1939 to 1940 and consisted of bombings and sabotages. 7 people were killed in the attacks and another 96 people were injured. The sabotages had been planed since 1938 by the Irish Republican Army's Chief of Staff, Seamus O'Donovan. The first attack was on January 16th in 1939 when bombs went of in five different places in England. One bomb went of close to a power station in London, another one damaged an overhead cable. The other three bombs went of in Alnwick, north in England, but none of the first bombs caused any causalities.
In 1939 UK declared war on Germany which led to contact between Germany and IRA leaders. Germany was, however, not impressed with IRAs effort. The German intelligence wrote to IRA and requested:
"The Pfalzgraf Section very urgently requests its Irish friends and IRA members to be so good as to make considerably better efforts to carry out the S-plan, which they received some time last summer, and to be more effectual against military as opposed to civilian objectives."
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