The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-12-10
Sim FEINERS
FIRE Liverpool
Twelve Cotton Warehouses and
Other Buildings Are Set
AblaZe.
FIVE LUMBER YARDS burn
Government ReneWs War ~Precauticnq
Following New Outbreak Of the
lawless Element-Unemployed
ACd to the Problem.

Macroom, County Cork, Ireland
Dec. Fifteen auxiliary police ca
diets were killed and one cadet norlui-
~ wounded as the result OF an am
bush near Kilmlcnael, southwest OF
here, last night. Another cadet i
missing. The cadets, under DIstrIc'
Inspector Crake, were p~atrollins IA
two lorries when they were ambusAcd'
American gunner are said 10
have made their appearance in L'n-
dOnderry, Ireland.
Liverpool, Nov. 30.-Twelve cotton
warehouses and several timber yards
were burned in Il program OF destrCC-
ton in this city, all believed 10 nave
been engineered by the Sim Feincr>.
The police, while rushing 10 lae
fires, were attacked by Il band Of men.
Shots were fired but TX casualties
were reported. a civilian. Dan el
Ward, caused the police TO believe he
was assisting in the arson outbre.h
and he was shot dead.
Seventeen persons were overcome
by smoke and fumes during the morn
ing. The tirebugs worked with thor
oughness. With special apparatus they
cut or burned out the locks and bolts
Of the warehouses and poured gaso-
line on the stocks. Four men were
captured.
London. Nov. 3O.-London and other
big English cities are grimly prepar-
ing 10 meet conditions OF domestic
warfare.
Red lights on the night barricades
In Whitehall lend a sinister aspect 10
the official heart of the empire
menaced by he twin dangers OF Sim
Fem outrages and the possibility of
Bolshevist disturbances.
General Norwood threw up the de-
lenses i'm Downing street and around
public buildings as the result OF seiz-
ure of important documents.
These documents had hardly been
read when the defense of the minis
terial offices was proclaimed, as the
papers disclosed plans 70 attack the
ministry and wreck historic govern,
ment edifices.
There is no reason to doubt that
the d~efenses have been erected prl-
marily as a protection against irish
gunner, but they incidentally enable
the police TO deal more efficiently
with the grave problems Of London 5
huge army of unemployed.
The present arrangement blocks
free access 10 the residences OF Pre-
mier Lloyd George and Bonar Law,
as well as to he foreign office, the
Indian Office. the Board Of Public
Works and the education office,
though visitors with satisfactory cie-
dentials are allowed to pass. the bar
riers being thrown down only in the
event of a surprise attack.
Within the beleaguered area direct
telephone communication has been es-
tablished with tie police and the mill
tary.
AT the Irish office nearby the door
is chained, barred ana Suarueu ~
FIVE hall porters. all former soldiers.
one was in Dublin castle the 1910
rebellion and knows most OF the
prominent men who survive Ii.
Dublin, Nov. 20.-Arthur Griffith.
founder of the Sim Fem organization
Prof. John MacNeill of the National
University of Ireland, Sim Fem mem
Der Of parliament for Londonderry
city, with a number % others, includ.
ing Professor MacNellls son. were mr.
rested by the auxiliary police. Grif-
fifth was taken away In a lorry 10 u
destination not made public.
Mr.. Griffith was to have addressed
a meeting of the Irish Self-Deternina.
ton league ut Manchester next Sun
day.