Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-30
Irish War Is Carried to Eng
IiSh Industrial Center and
Many Buildings Are in
Ashes

MACROOM, County Cork, Ireland,
Nov. 29.-(By the Associated Press.)
Fifteen auxiliary police cadets were
killed and one cadet mortally wound
ed as the result of an ambush by be-
tween 20 and 100 men near Kill
michael, southwest of here. last
evening. Another of the cadets is
missing.
DUBLIN, Nov. 29.-British Off
GERS at Londonderry in anonymous
letters today were threatened with
assassination if they do not leave
Ireland at once. a repetition of the
killings in Dublin was promised if
they remain.
Irish office officials declared gun
men from America had arrived in
Dublin to cooperate with Sim
Feiners
Coincidentally with incendiary
outbreaks in England came reports
today of renewed Sim Fein activi-
ties in Ireland.
Determined attacks were made on
police and military patrols; threats
were sent to British army officers.
and mail cars were robbed.
Irish office authorities declared
mail pouches had been rifled fire.
quently in the. last week. The
theory was that Sim Fem leaders
were making an attempt to obtain
Information to aid them in future
attacks. Several post offices were
ransached. The Irish office de-
MED anything of value had been
missed in these mail fobberies.
Weekend attacks in Ireland in
cluded the shooting of Constable
Quirk at Waterford by three Sim
Feiners. At Bradford, Mortimer
Duggan was shot dead when he
ignored a sentrys challenge. A riot
broke out in Mullingar when uni
formed men bombed the town. Win
dows were broken and other prop
erty damage done. A small boy was
wounded before military patrol
arrived to arrest the police Of
tenders.
Comment on the Outbreaks in
Liverpool and London was with
held by the Irish office here.
The attention of authorities was
concentrated on reports of the ar
rival of foreign gun men in Dub
lin. 1t was believed arrests would
be made shortly.
Meanwhile the prison camps built
here and at New Castle for Sim
Fem suspects were approaching
completion. Temporary cell rooms
here crowded. but patrols continued
bringing in prisoners.
SIM FEN CHARGED. WITH
LIVERPOOL DOCK FIRES
LONDON, Nov. 29.-Edward Shortt,
the home secretary, declared in the
house of commons this afternoon. in
reply to questions regarding Satur-
day nights incedniary dock fires in
Liverpool, that there seemed no doubt
that the fires were the result of an
organized conspiracy in which mem
bers of the Sim Fein party were en-
gagged. ~
Damage done in Sim Fein's fiery
attack on English property was fig
ured in millions of dollars today.
Extra troops were assigned to Liv-
erpool where dock fires still smoul-
dered. Police and soldiers mounted
guard here following the almost &C
cidental breaking up of an arson plot
In a secluded lumber yard
Police, expecting some such attack,
were surprised when so many fires
broke out at once. Gangs of four
and five men, armed with their
house-breaking tools, crept along the
darkened wharves Saturday night.
Gaining entrance to the buildings,
they ignited parafffn-soaked sacks,
which they tossed in among the in
fammable goods stored there.
Within few moments flames
were bursting through the long she'd
buildings. The water of the harbor
was lighted by the red glare.
TIE gangs, lodging and twisting
through the dancing shadows cast
by the flames. were no easy prey for
the police. Instead they winged"
some of the officers. Several police
men today exhibited holes in their
clothing, indications of their narrow
escapes in pursuing the men. Only
three participants were known to
have been captured.
In Bootle there were seven ware
house fires in that district through
out the night, but no injuries or
deaths were reported
One man was killed in Liverpool.
He was Daniel Ward, a nineteen
year-old boy who assisted police in
surprising one of the incendiary
bands.
In London an arson plot was be-
1ieved disrupted when a policeman
stumbled across six men lettering in
the neighborhood of the Red Lion
market Upon being questioned the
men fed, leaving behind rags soaked
with paraffin. revolvers and quanti-
ties of waste paper.
One of the men was arrested later
and Sunday he was questioned by
police who declared there was no
doubt a Sim Fein plot had been
frustrated.