Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-11-29
ny PERCY S ARiLI... i. ).
United News stan Correanord,

uniteu News STAFF Correspondent
LONDON, Nov. 2S,-Sinn Fein car
rtcd the Irish war into the Industrial
heart OF England with an outbreak
OF arson In Liverpool Sunday morn
inE. Twelve warehouses, stocked
with cotton and other materials and
number OF lumber yards 'were Sc,
on fire simultaneously. a policeman
was shot dead AS he tried to arrest
man running from one OF tho burn
ing buildings. and boy who had
the misfortune to observe the incen-
diaries on one job was another vic
time.
AT one time there were eighteen
bad fires going in the warehouses and
lumber yards. including six in the
Bootle section alone. All tho Liver
pool fire engines. rs well as those
from the suburban stations were ont
simultaneously and other apparatus
was summoned from neiehborine
towns No estimate OF the damage
can yet be attempted. but it will GER
tainiy amount'to many thousands of
pounds. Many fires were still burn
ins despite the best efforts OF the en-
TIRE hre and police departments. M
O'Clock Sunday afternoon. Seyera,
score OF firebugs are believed to hay.
worked on the Jobs" in parties of
varying numbers.
Pickcts Fire on Police,
When the police rushed to tho sr.,
IN the North End they were fired
upon by the pickets stationed to stave
or interference. None was hit. how.
ever.
Bootle had total OF twelve fro
alarms during tho arson orgy. Sew
eral huge slx-story warehouses;
crammed with raw materials lust un-
loaded from ships or with manufac-
tured goods about to be shipped. were
burned out. At one time there were
three great fires going In Regen.
Street. including one lumber varo
containing thousands OF feet of tim
Der badly needed for housing CON.
struction. In Sandsheld Lanc a sim.
liar lumber yard went up in flames
and two immense cotton warehouses
were badly damaged.
The outbreak took place according
TO the plan attributed to the Irisi,
republican army. AS these dispatches
announced Thursday, tho plan favor.
ed sunday morning as tho best time
TO attack Liverpool and AIancheste-
with the torch and explosives.
London Strongly Guarded,
While Liverpool was being threa..
ened with destruction and the entire
FORCES OF the great seaport city were
making a bewiidcred fight against at
tacks In many quarters, precautions
went forward In London to prevent
the assassination OF Lloyd George
and other high officers OF tho govern
ment.
Heavy police guards were sta
toned throughout the Whitehall and
Westminster districts. housing rs.
spectively the many government de.
partments and Parliament ST. James
Park, including large parade
ground In the rear OF the Prime Min
listers residence. tho Admiralty and
the Foreign Office. was turned into
a mobilization field for tho special
police and n concentration OF these
officers was kept there all day ready
to be shifted to any point OF attack
on seconds notice.
The government Is still reticent re-
garding the details of tho plot, but
the plan OF destruction is revealed
as the most elaborate in the history
OF the Irish troab!es, with hundreds
OF men implicated. 4
In Manchester and Liverpool pre-
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