Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-12-03
SIEN FEINERS
FIRE LIVERPOOL
Twelve Cotton Warehouses and
Other Buildings Are Set
AblaZe.
FIVE LUMBER YARDS BURN
Government Renews War Precautions
Following New Outbreak of the
Lawiess Element---unemploye
Add to the Problaan.


Macroom, County Cork, ireland,
Dec. Fifteen auxiliary police Gu
diets We're killed and one cadet mortal
ly wounded as the result of an am-
bush near kilmichael, southwest of
here, last night. Another cadet is
| missing. The cadets, under District
Inspector Crake, were patrolling in
two lorries when they were ambushed.
London, Dec. 1.--Ameriean gun
men are said to have made their APP
pearance in Londonderry, Ireland, ac-
cording to messages received hare.
Liverpool, Nov. 30--Twelve cotton
warehouses and several timber yards
were burned In a program of destrEc-
tion In this city. all believed to have
been engineered by the Sim Felners.
The police, while rushing to the
| fires, We're attacked by band of men.
Shots were fired but no casualties
were reported. A civilian. Daniel
Ward, caused the police to believe he
was assisting in the arson outbreak
and he was shot dead.
Seventeen persons were overcome
by smoke and fumes during the morn
Ing The firebugs 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
Warehouses are burning In Spar
ling, Pabley and Jordan streets. There
aFe five timber yard blazes In Vulcan
street and Barnheld Lane.
The firemen of all neighboring
towns have been called In to assist
local forces.
London. Nov. 30.--London and other
big English cities are grimly prepar-
ing TO meet conditions of domestic
warfare.
Red lights on the night bhrricades
In Whitehall lend sinister aspect to
the official "heart of the empire"
menaced by the twin dangers of Sim
Fein outrages and the possibility of
| Bolshevlst disturbances.
General Norwood threw up the de-
| fenses In Downing street and around
the houses Of parliament and othes
| public buildings as the result OF SELF
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 TO attack the
ministry and wreck historic govern
ment edifices.
There Is no reason to doubt that
the defenses have been erected pri-
marlly as protection against Irish
| gunner, but they incidentally enable
the police to deal more efficiently
with the grave problems of Londor's
huge army of unemployed.
The present arrangement blocks
free access to the residences Of Pre-
mier Lloyd George and Bonar Law.
as well as to the foreign office, the
Indian office, the Board of Public
Works and the education office,
though visitors with satisfactory ere
dentlals are allowed to pass. the bur-
riers being thrown down only In the
event of a surprise attack.
Within the beleaguered area direct
telephone communication has been es-
tablished with the police and the mill
tary.
At the Irish Office nearby the door
is chained, barred and guarded by
FIVE hall porters, all former soldiers.
One was in Dublin castle =. the 1915
rebellion and knows most of the
prominent men who survive it.
Dublin, Nov. 29.--Arthur Griffith,
founder Of the Sim Fein organization;
Prof. John MacNeill of the National
University Of Ireland, Sim Fein mem
ber of parliament for Londonderry
city, with a number Of others, includ-
ing Professor MaeNeill's son, were ar
rested by the auxiliary police. Grif-
fifth was taken away in a lorry to
destination not made public.
Mr.. Griffith was to have addressed
a meeting Of the Irish SelfDetermina-
tion league at Manchester next Sum
day.
A statement issued from Dublin
castle, the seat Of the government,
with regard to the Griffith arrest, read:
arthur Griffith was arrested at his
residence in st Lawrence road at
p. m. large quantity of literature
was taken from his house. No arms
were found. He was in bed at the
time and was taken away in a motor
lorry. He made no statement. His ar
rest was effected without trouble"