New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
British Bomb
Irish Houses
AS a Reprisal
Fires Follow Hours Of Cum
play in County Mayo;
Dublin Civilians Raid
Crown Troops in Truck
Home Rule on April l9
Date Set for Preliminaries
Under New Act; Elections
Will Be Called Nav 3

WESTPORT, County Mayo, ireland,
March 26 (By The Associated Press).--
Pandemonium prevailed here early to-
day, when crown forces engaged in re-
prisals for a recent ambush near here.
There was continuous gunfire in va
rious parts of the town for several
hours. Houses and shops were wrecked
with bombs, and furniture and other
effects were burned.
FOR several days past many persons
have been sleeping outdoors IN expecta-
ton Of reprisals.
DUBLIN, March ga bomb attack
was made this afternoon on two lorries
belonging to the air forces, standing
in a street in the heart of Dublin. The
attack resulted in the wounding of two
of the air force contingent and several
civilians.
Civilians Surround Soldiers
The attack occurred at p. m. The
two lorries we're drawn up opposite
Findlaters Stores, IN O'Connell Street.
A number of the soldiers had entered
the stores to make purchases. Those
oeHly surrounded by armed civilians,
who threw two bombs and opened fire
from their revolvers.
The men of the air force took to
cover and returned the fire. The two
men wounded we're Privates Brown and
Hayden. The civilians injured included
several women and girls. Bomb splin-
ters we're responsible for their wounds.
A series of attacks was made Friday
on seven stations of the Norther rn
Counties Railway in Antrim All the
stations were burned.
All the business establishments in
Strckestown two miles from the scene
of the ambush in which Captain r. G.
Peek was killed on Wednesday last,
have been closed by the authorities.
The house from which it was sup
posed the attack was made was de-
stroyed to-day by crown forces.
General Allgood, commander of the
military forces in northwest Ulster,
issued warning to-day that, owing
to the number Of "evilly disposed per-
sons" in the Londonderry district and
the prevalence of revolver shooting,
the military forces hayt orders to fire
promptly at gunmen. A Tightening of
the curfew regulation also is hinted at.
Home Rule Begins April 10
The day appointed for the prelinii-
nares necessary to bring the Home
Rule act into operation has been fixed
for April 10, both northern and south
ern parllaments starting simultane-
ously. On May the Lord Lieutenant
for Ireland will issue proclamations
for the elections under the act, which
will be held in May both in the North
and South
LONDON, March 26.-A dispatch to
The Star from Belfast to-day says the
authorities there have obtained an
inkling of a Sim F6in plot to prevent
the establishment and operation Of the
Ulster parliament. 80
"The Sim Feners," declared the
dispatch, "are determined at all costs
to prevent the loyalists making the
act success. Plans had been carefully
prepared to kidnap the sheriffs and
officers and seize the ballot boxes on
the night preceding the elections"
lncendiary fires broke out on numer-
Gus farms this evening near Newcastle
upon-Tyne. Lloyd's News attributes the
fires to Sim Feincrs. The damage is
estimated at several thousand pounds.