IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1921, Page 1

IN IRELAND

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ATTEMPTS TO FIRE SIGNAL BOXES. ON LONDON RAILWAYS. LONDON, June 18. Some Sinn Feiners last night attempted to set lire to a number of railway signal boxes around London. The most, serious of these outrages was at Clapton, where some .assailants fired revolvers and wounded a signalman, who managed to telephone tor assistance, and ho reached the next box, where lie was medically attended. At Southall oil was poured by the attackers on instruments and woodwork, after binding and partially gagging the signalman, who was just able to shout tor help. Workmen! from a locomotive works nearby arrived just in time to prevent a fire. A similar attack was made at Barnes, where a fire was extinguished before much damage was done.

Gunmen hired a taxi at Newcross at midnight, and told the driver to proceed to Lee. Approaching Lee, the men jumped off the taxi, surrounded the driver, and at the revolver point hound him and throw him on the roadside, and the taxi disappeared. Nine aiVests have been made. Scotland Yard reports state the signal box outrages arc the work of Sinn Feiners. The men they have arrested are all Irishmen. They arc aged from 17 to 24. They were armed with revolvers, wire-cutters and paraffin. At Bromley (Kent) police stopped a taxi, when six armed men fired. The police returned the fire, wounding a man named Robinson, who recently was acquitted on a charge of incendiarism. He, with three others, has boen charged with firing at the police, with intent to murder.

THE SEIZURE OF GUNS. NEW YORK, June 16

The Federal Judge, Justice Lynch, lias signed an order for the forfeiting tp the American Government of the machine guns and munitions seized on the steamer Eastside at New York. The officials are endeavouring to determine how the arms came on board the ship. The steamship company and the Colt Arms Company deny any knowledge of the transaction.