Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-25
PLAN TO BLOW UP
LONDON DOCKS
Plot Discovered Says Irish Se-
cretary Observation-Disclosures
No Reprisal Has Been Con-
Quoted by Officer

London. Nov. 2-In his speech on the
Irish situation in the House of Commons
to-day, Sir Hamar Greenwood the chief
secretary for Ireland, said detailed plans
FOR the destruction of large bower house
in Man chester and of docks in Liverpool
had been discovered. the Liverpool plans
Involving use of eight hundred pounds
W the high explosive gelignte at q points.
AS regarded the reprisal charges. the
chief secretary declared there was not a
single authenticated case of anything
called a reprisnl having taken place under
M officer.
Tne crown forces, declared tho chief
secretary, were daily growing more Ct
:ective II was true that more OF then:
were being murdered, but that was be-
cause they were asserting the authority
Of the crown. Extracts from document,
ne said. had been recently captured, were
| read to show that Z 500 pounds had 1ecn
| spenA In organizing the headquarters staff
of the republican army since July. This,
he said, was the center of the murder
gang" and that it was from this center
that in some cases 100 pounds per skull''
nf the police and military had been paid.
Specific instructions for the manufac-
ture of certain high explosives had been
discovered. the chief secretary declared,
citing two carefully detailed plans for
the destruction of a large power house in
Manchester and of docks in Liverpool had
been found In the Liverpool! case, he
said, among the details were instructions
regarding action at 81 points. involving
the use of eight hundred pounds of ge-
Ignite.
Reading other documents showing the
effect of the present policy of the gov
ernment. Sir Hamar quoted statement
ioI, off IN
the effect that the enemy had found
a very effective method of disruptng the
republican army's movements. The Of
flcer said a sort of terror was creeping
in and disorganzation setting in in many
cases. The officer added that if the vol
unteers We're disrupted all was lost.
Sir Hamar concluded by claiming that
no country in the world had to deal
with such a campaign Of murder and
outrage as England had to deal with in
ireland. but said the government was
succeeding in its efforts to stamp it out.
The Sim Fein forces had disappeared
he declared, except in back room meet
ings for propaganda, the boycott had
been broken. It's ugly sister intimidation
was going, hunger striking had ended
and the Irish republican army was being
broken up.
The chief secretary appealed to the
House to show every consideration by
word and by resolution for the police,
soldiers. civil servantS and judges. who,
he declared. were obeying the orders of
Parliament and fighting & battle against
assassination, and not against the Irish
people Tho secretary appealed espe-
cially to the great Catholic Church in
Ireland" which, he said, by appeals from
every altar could greatly assist in this
ended his address amid cheering when
ne said:
There is only one issue left. That
Is. Who is for the empire and who is
for assassination"
London. Nov. A.-Alleged plans for
blowing up the Liverpool docks and the
Manchester power and water plants are
said to show that they We're made in
military fashion after detailed reports
with drawings had been forwarded to
Irish republican army officers by spies
at each place that was destined for de-
struction. The plans, which are said to
have been captured when the documents
relating to the spreading of typhoid and
glanders We're captured. We're made
public tonight after the statement of
Sir Hamar Greenwood in the House of
Commons.
The Liverpool plans called for % Off
GERS, q engineers and 70 privates and 800
pounds of a high explosive for attack
ing Il points, most of them dock gates,
with a view TO strandng ships
Diversions suggested in the report
would consist of numerous fires in cot
ton and other warehouses. starting a half
hour before the other operations.
Apparently every precaution was taken