SINN FEIN PLOT.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1920, Page 5

SINN FEIN PLOT.

| . -* i A RAID ON LONDON,, [ THREATS TO KILL MINISTERS. "PROTECTIVE MEASURES TAKEN, *y Tslegriph—Press AssodstlSßi Received Nov. 28, 6.6 p.m. _ London, Nov. 27. Owing to Sinn Fein documents seized m Ireland disclosing plans to destroy public buildings in London, and threats against the lives of Ministers, protective measures have been hurriedly adopted. Workmen are employed night and day erecting barricades to the entrances to the side streets off Whitehall leading to Government offices, especially in Downing Street,, where Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Bonar Law occupy their official residences. Parliamentary buildings have been closed against visitors. The police detained suspicious characters loitering in the outer lobby of the House of Commons on Friday. The utmost secrecy is being preserved by officials regarding the revelations of the Sinn Fein plot. It is rumored that it is intended to employ motor cars conveying bombers rapidly from place to place.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS. MINISTER IN BULLET PROOF CAR. Received Nov. 2S, 11.5 p.m. London, Nov. 27. Sir Hamar Greenwood (Chief Secretary for Ireland) uses a bullet-proof car while driving to London. Five exservice men provide a guard at the ouier door of the Irish Office, which is bolted, barred, and chained. Several Ministers and high officV.s have received threatening letters nnJ anonymous warnings. The police are guarding the Manchester Coal Exchange anil have prohibited the entrance of delegates arriving from all parts of the country to participate in the Irish-Self-determina-tion League's week-end demonstrations. An official of the Irish Office, interviewed, reports that an enormous quantity of Republican documents has been seized. The Republicans are remarkably careless conspirators, for they distributed among their agents scores of typewritten copies of hudrads of their plans, of which much may be due merely to Irish imagination, but the details suggested outrages so elaborate that the authorities must take serious — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.