SINN FEIN OUTRAGES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 122, 16 February 1921, Page 7

SINN FEIN OUTRAGES

HIE INCENDIARY PLOT IN LANCASHIRE INTENSE INDIGNATION AROUSED Sy Telegraph—Prefs Association-Copyright. (Rec. February 15, 7.45 p.m.) London, Eesbruary 14. There is intense indignation in Lancashire against the Sinn Feiners. The cotton operatives are organising a movement to refuse to work with Irishmen. The country is being scoured for suspects in connection with the cases of arson, of whom the police have issued descriptions. Several Irishmen arc in custody. The police believe the plot was hatched in Ireland, and it not due to the Liverpool Irish Sinn Fein.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Eight fires during the week-end at Manchester were attributed to Sinn Feiners. In each case rags saturated with petrol were thrown in the Oldham and other mills and factories during the night. Much damage was done at the Thornham mill skips yards, bales of cotton stored in ~the cellars being destroyed, but generally the fires were discovered quickly, and little damage was done. Two suspects were arrested.] THE NOVEMBER FIRES THREE MEN SENTENCED. (Rec. February 15, 7.45 p.m.) London, February 14. ' As a result of their trial at Liverpool, Kerr and M’Caughey, labourers, were found guilty of conspiracy to murder police and of setting fire to warehouses and timber yards in Liverpool and Bootle on November 28, and were sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Fowler was found guilty of conspiracy and setting fire to warehouses, and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.—Aus.-N.Z’. Cable Assn. [Eighteen fires * broke out in warehouses and timber yards in Liverpool and nine in Bootle on the night of November 27 last, the damage being estimated at a million pounds. The fires were attributed to Sinn Feiners, and the plot was carried out with skill and daring. A young man named Daniel Ward, who gave warning to the police, was shot dead.] CAMPAIGN OF TERRORISM AGAINST EX-SERVICE MEN.. (Rec. February 15, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 14. The Sinn Feiners have instituted a campaign of terrorism against ex-service men. They informed twenty-five exservice men that if they persisted in settling on the land they would be tried by a Sinn Fein court and shot. Landowners offering estates to the ex-service commission have been similarly threat-ened.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BLOCKADE OF WESTERN KERRY FOOD SUPPLIES EXHAUSTED. , (Rec. February 15, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 14. In consequence of the blockade of Western Kerry, the stationmaster on the Tralee-Dingle line reports that supplies are exhausted, and women and children are on the verge of starvation. Labour leaders in London have been urged to take immediate action for relief. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

[A message received last week stated that a blockhouse-system had been established over a wide area in Western Kerry, and the round-up in the mountains was proceeding.]