THE CORK CONFLAGRATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12228, 14 December 1920, Page 5

THE CORK CONFLAGRATION.

■i3jjlfca»m AWFUL NIGHT OF TERROR. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Dec. 14, 9 a.m. London, Dec. 12. The fire in the Times office destroyed a large stock of paper and damaged four presses. Publication was not affected.

A Cork correspondent states that the fires in Cork were systematically carried out. The occupants were warned. Furniture was soaked with petrol. A building occupied by Sinn Feiners was set on fire, but two others were left untouched. The incendiaries took command of the city. Then ensued an awful night of terror. Yelling gangs chased civilians through the streets and the night resounded with revolver cracks and bomb explosions. It is feared that several people were burned alive in the destroyed buildings.