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London Office Charges
Sim Fein Responsible
For Liverpool Outbreak
Eleven Cotton Warehouses
in Liverpool Fired Stimuli
taneously by Well Organ
lied Gangs.
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LIVERPOOL, Nov. 2s.-Fifteen ware
houses in Liverpool and Bootie, sub
urb, principally Liverpool cotton ware
houses, were set on fire last night. Tive
of the cotton warehouses in Liverpool
were burned out. Gasoline cans and
paraffin were found about the prem
ises. 1t was stated in police quarters
that there was strong evidence the
fires were the work of Sim Feiners.
Some shooting occurred after ths
outbreak of the flames. Constabies on
the scene were fired at and bullets
passed through the clothing of some of
them but none was injured. One civil
ian was shot dead. Five men were ar
rested in connection with the alleged
incendiary outbreak.
The Liverpool correspondent of the
Evening Telegram in message today,
says:
"Orey of outrage and destruction,
believed to have been engineered by
Sim Feiners, was carried out on IL
cotton warehouses and several timber
yards here. Several fires were burn
ing at once, necessitatina call for zs-
sistance from the outlying brissdes."
The newspaper says suspected
man, believed to have been connected
with one of the fires, when seized by a
policeman, pulled a revolver and shot
the policeman dead. The man later
was arrested.
The descriptions of two men wanted
In connection with the fires have been
circulated by the police and 1t is be-
lieved, adds the message, that both are
connected with the Sim Fein move
ment.
Dublin Castle Statement
BELFAST, Nov. 28.--A statement
I toe. torhf TTrhffr - affax.
giving an account Of the Liverpool
fires and accompanying incidents,
adds:
sRead in conjunction with the docu-
ments discovered last week in which
plans for Sim Fein reprisals against
4 the English towns OF Manchester and
/ Liverpool, among number, were de-
tailed, these things have a very sinis-
ter aspect The fact OF the police be-
ing fired on suggests that the methods
OF the Sim Fein murder gang in Ire
land are being employed against the
English people, even If the personnel
OF the murders is not the same"
Eleven Fires in Liverpool
LONDON. Nov. 2S.-A dispatch to
the Press association from Liverpool
says
~An alarming outbreak of Sim Feir
violence occurred Saturday night
S0GIItX UelOEC u GiCEA E4AC DlOhS
out simultaneously both in the soutf
land north ends of Liverpool and also
in Bootle.
There were seven fires in Bootls
and eleven IN various parts of Liver
pool
Subsequent discoveries revealed g
well planned Sim F'ein plot to spread
fire among the warehouses IN the doel
area. The fires We're spread over al
most all of the whole seven miles o
the dock area"
/ Owing to the inflammable nature o
, the contents OF the warehouses, tn.
i. flames quickly gained a stronghold
The local fire brigades we're unable L
! cope with the situation and wer'
| obliged to call brigades from othe
r suburbs The police took steps TO pre-
! vent further outbreaks by concencat
ing policemen along the line of docks
Three youths, watching the sus
; picious movements of two men at |
: cotton warehouse, warned the police
a who challenged the suspects. There
I upon the latter bolted and fired upol
the police The police We're unhur
but a bullet killed Daniel Ward, VIII
was among those who warned the po
!. lice.
|, : Damage Will Reach Million
''It was found that all locks on som
: warehouses had been cut with bolt cut
= ters. Many empty petrol cans wer
!, found on the scene. Each fire starte
, . at more than one place"
: 1T appears that for each bufdin
? marked for destruction, there were al
: lotted gangs numbering from four I
five men, one Of whom stood sentr
while the others cut the locks and ap
piled the inflammables.
MANY fires were suppressed /
their early stages, and in these case
there was clear evidence of incendiar
ism in the finding Of rags soaked
S parafin and empty petrol cans and bo
cutters left behind. The most destruc
tive fires were in two large cotto
y warehouses on either side OF Jorda
= street, which were completely de
stroyed.
a "It is impossible to estimate th
,f damage, but it is known it will ru
into hundreds of thousands of pound
The man who shot Daniel Ward as
a capped but the police captured his az
r. complice