Show PATRIOTIC S SCOTS J WA ANTTO J m RESCUE UE STONE Of S SCONE Nf Plot to Steal Famous Stone of Destiny Revealed By DOROTHY RUSSELL Associated Press Staff Writer LONDON Dec 22 AP AP-A AP A plot to steal the Stone of Destiny from the coronation chair In Westminster ster Abbey recently disclosed here Is said to be an opening move in a revolutionary program planned b by r young Scottish nationalists They aim ahn to bring to a head the objective for which many Scots have long Seen the restoration restoration restoration res res- of of v Scotland's national Identity and her self government through a parliament of oC her own similar to the Ulster parliament In hi northern Ireland The plans of these fiery to raid the Abbey carry off oft the stone and deposit it with the Lord Provost of Perth would If It successful successful suc sue fittingly symbolize Scotland's Scotland's Scot Scot- lands land's declaration of independence Known as the stone of oC scone the Stone of oC De Destiny upon which the kings of England have sat at their coronations for tor almost seven bundred hundred hundred hun bun dred years had formerly been part of the throne of the kings of Scotland Scotland Scotland Scot Scot- land from time immemorial It was brought from the Abbey of Scone scene of Scottish coronations b by Edward I t first of the kings of i s united J England and Scotland and since 1296 has rested beneath the hard wooden seat of the coronation chair used by Britain's s successive monarchs A venerable tradition credits It as being the stone on which which pillowed pillowed pil pu- lowed his head when he dreamed of ot the ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaVen heaten heat en and which he afterwards anointed with oil and set up Ut for a pillar of Gods house The fact that it is a piece of Scottish red sandstone however d discounts the fact that the Stone of Destiny could have originated in the land of Jacob |