ARSON CAMPAIGN

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11437, 6 February 1923, Page 5

ARSON CAMPAIGN

HISTORIC MANSION BURNED. DAMAGE, £IO,OOO. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 5, 11.45 p.m.) LONDON, February 4. Armed men on Saturday night visited Colonel Charles Guinness’s beautiful historic mansion at Clermont Park. They allowed.the household 15 minutes to collect a few 6mall valuables, and placed the colonel, his wife, and the servants under an armed guard. They sprinkled the house with petrol, and the basement and roof were quickly consumed. The damage is assessed at £IO,OOO. The colonel is head of the Guinness family in Ireland, and is a prominent Unionist. MILITARY ACTIVITIES IMPORTANT ARRESTS MADE Pablietied. In **Th« Time*** (Received February 6, 12.35 a.m.) LONDON, February 4. “The Times’s” Dublin correspondent states that armed men shortly after dark raided a restaurant in Henry street, the property of Senator Wysepower. They ordered out the customers, sprinkled petrol, set the premises on fire and escaped. The fire was extinguished. Military activity is increasing. Thirty important arrests have been made, and large quantities of material and documents discovered. Two cross-channel cables hare been cut. The summer residence of Senator O’Sullivan in Killarnoy was burned down, and a number of postmen held up and robbed of letters. A train was set cm fire and wrecked in Killaln, County A 1 ayo, where the railway station was destroyed.