SINN FEIN ACTIVITIES.

OUTRAGES NEAR LONDON

(Per Press Association, Copyright.) LONDON, June 18. , Sinn Feiners last night attempted to set fire to a number of railway signalboxes around London.

The most serious outrage was at Clapton, where the assailants fired revolvers and wounded ,the isignahnan, who managed to telephone for assistance. He reached the next box, where he was medically attended. -The criminals at Southall poured oil on the instruments and the woodwork, after binding and partially gagging the signalman, who was just able to shout for help. Workmen, from the locomotive works nearby arrived just m time to prevent the fire. A similar attack was made at Barnes, where the fire was extinguished before much damage was done. A party of gunmen hired a taxicab at New Cross at midnight and told the driver to proceed to Lee. When approaching Lee the men jumped out of the taxi and surrounded the driver. They bound him and threw him on the roadside, and then disappeared with the car.

Nine arrests have been made. Scotr land Yard reports that the signal-box outrages are the work of Sinn" Feiners. The men arrested are all Irishmen, aged from seventeen to twenty-four years. They were armed with revolvers and carried wire-cutters and paraffin. .^ At Bromley (Kent), the police stopped a taxi-cab from which six armed men fired. The police returned the tire, wounding a man named Rob-' inson, who was recently acquitted on a charge of incendiarism. He, with three others, has been charged with firing at the police. with intent to murder. , ' '■'.■■

Further attempts were made to damage the London railways last night, bleepers on the Brighton line at Battersea were set on tire, but the flames were extinguishd before serious damage was done.