ALLEGED PLOT.

Grey River Argus, 26 November 1920, Page 4

ALLEGED PLOT.

TO DESTROY DOORS AND. POWER STATIONS. DUBLIN CASTLE REPORTS. (Rec. November 25 at 7.25 p.m.) LONDON, November 25. The Irish administration has published what it states are the contents of captured Sinn Fein documents giving detailed plons to destroy Liverpooi dock gates and machinery by means ol gelignite, also sketches for guidance of gangs, it being proposed to ignite warehouses to mask operations. Other documents give details with sketches for crippling the main power station in Manchester, which is applying a majority of the factories anu trams. There also are reports of a spy who niade a close inspection. The publication adds ihat it was hopel if the dock gates were destroyed an outrush of water would cause widespread damage to shipping. The destruction, of a power station in Stuart Street, Manchester, would, according to the document, para'yse Manchester. A plan of campaign as regards Liverpool, was to cut telephones, overpower dock police, open the gates, and then demolish gate machinery by means of gelignite. It was estimated this would require twenty-three otiic " ers, twenty-seven engineers, M>;-«.mty-five' rank and file, the preparations to occupy three weeks and officers to reside in the vicinity. Schedules are published that contain a list of docks, now to destroy them, the men required' how they are at present protected, how to deal with guards, and how to approach. Fur example, Canada dock would be allotted to ten men with a hundred pounds of gelignite. Artcinpts were made to calculate the time necessary to empty -the docks by sxich methods, and- instructions were given as regards they most vulnerable portions of the "machinery, and how various, parts could be best attacked. It is stated sketches were drawn of various 'luckyards, showing the inethol am] material of construct; .on, and what weight of explosive «vas required fur . rcli hinge. It was prpposedt to detonate charges electrically in cider to mas.c the approach ynd -.escape- of gangs. It was proposed to start fires in cotton an-} 1 other warelioises half an hour ahead. A .loiMnieiio published ie. lating to Stuart Siree*, Manchester, tells -how the suatum vrorkeJ, <l*e hours and sliifts, with s sketch pl.-m showing positions of vulner."-blo . macliuiory. For 'cample, Turbines and switchboards. It was pi.opo.sod to cut telephones, over power vatrhmen, and admit a motor, hearing tools find also to round up the staff and workmen, fc'hese were detjjlel instructions, furnished with sketches, showing howeach destruction party would procetd, the number of men in each party, and what implements would be necessary. Another document gives the report of a spy who toured the works one 3unjiay morning for an hour and a-half. The same spy visited a vital pimping station at Claytonvale and supplied a report theron. The Irish Government states further that a spy described an important power station of Manchester industry and showed details as to how destruc I tion parties ought to proceed. •It is also reported that some bombs were found behind a fire place in Liberty Hall, Dublin.