were both hanged at Birmingham Prison Many protests followed this. Simon Donnelly, former IRA leader, made a speech in Dublin in which he proclaimed, to the crowd's jubilation:We know very well what outcome we want to this war. We want the enemy, who has kept our people in bondage for 700 years and who continues to pour insults on us, to be pitilessly vanquished. Until such time as the Irish Republic is established, Ireland's youth will continue to sacrifice itself. If the government does not bring foreign overlordship to an end, others must be entrusted with the task. 14 February – In Birmingham, five bombs exploded. 23 February The Times reported that since being enacted, the Temporary Provisions legislation had led to the expulsion of 119 people from Britain. Two explosions occurred in the West End, London. The devices had been placed in refuse bins. Thirteen people were injured. 6 March: A bomb was set off at Park Lane Bank and in King's Inn Road in London. 17 March: There was an explosion near Paddington Town Hall. 18 March: Bomb explodes on a rubbish dump in London. No injuries. 5 May: Nazi agent Hermann Goertz is parachuted into Ireland and was sheltered by Seamus O’Donovan. Involvement of German Abwehr It is unlikely that the German Intelligence Abwehr I & II had any input into the formation of the S-plan and it was not until the bombing campaign opened that German intelligence took any real interest in the IRA. Interest in the S-Plan did become a feature of subsequent IRA/Abwehr contact following the British declaration of war on Germany in 1939. According to a 1939 discussion between Jim O'Donovan and Abwehr Director, "Dr. Pfalzgraf", (Captain Friedrich Carl Marwede Director of Office I West in Abwehr II, Berlin), the point of the S-plan was, "a final fight with England, whereby it was hoped to force the British to negotiations on the question of re-unification." O'Donovan made four visits to Germany to discuss the possibility of acquiring German arms and wireless equipment for the IRA. There is solid evidence from the Abwehr war diaries that methods employed by IRA units carrying out the S-Plan generated only annoyance and frustration in Germany. Attacks against mostly civilian targets, while causing panic and loss of confidence in the authorities, were not perceived as helpful to damaging British capability for waging war. Evidence of German Intelligence's frustration