SINN FEIN PLOT.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1920, Page 5

SINN FEIN PLOT .

POLICE RAIDS IN LONDON, 4KBRICAN SUSPECTS ARRESTED. ! Bj Telegraph.—Preu Awn.—Copyright Received Dec. I, 7.20 p.m. London, Nov. 30. The police searched the Aquitania on arrival at Southampton from New York and detained six Americans on suspicion of being connected with Sinn Fein. Some pollened firearm*. The London police raided the Sinn Fein offices and several dwellings in the suburbs, seizing papers. No arTeatg were made. Special police in London are held in readiness as a precaution against outrages The bomb which caused the Old Swan Lane explosion wag operated by an alarm clock. The police within Parliament buildings are armed. On examination of the remains of the bomb in Old Swan Lane, Home Office experts believe it is an amateurish production, and probably contained ordinary gunpowder. It is not a Sinn Fein type of bomb, and the experts disbeUere the outrage has any political sig-nificance.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn..

THE LIVERPOOL MURDBK. Received Dec. 1, 9.40 p.m. London, Dee. 1. The Irishman accused of murdering Ward, was identified as Matthew Fowler, a Dublinite, who has been working for a year at the Birkenhead docks. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Ward was the youth shot during the fires in Liverpool.] (GLASGOW PEARS TROUBLE. ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. London, Nov. 29. Tb./ Glasgow authorities have made elaborate preparations for a possible Sinn Fein outbreak. Special police guards are posted on the docks and all throughout Clydesdale where there are public buildings, as a powerful Sinn Fein body exists in Glasgow and throughout Clydesdale, where there is frequent Sinn Fain drilling. Southampton is also taking precautions for the safety of the docks and shipping. The authorities raided the Sinn Fein , Dublin, tore up the floors, and discovered a secret underground safe which had not been revealed on the occasion of the previous search. They blew open the safe, which contained £SOO and important documents associated With the name of Mkhael Collins, chief-of-staff of the Irish Republican Army. , LONDON PLOTS. WARNING TO M.P.'S. London, Nov. 30. The wrecked skin warehouse is situated in Old Swan Lane, close to the Thames. The fire was soon extinguished. The police picketed all the streest in the neighborhood. The explosion is attributed to Irishmen, but the police decline to express an opinion. A curious episode occurred in the j House of Commons. Two or three members of the House, who. have been active in putting the Sinn Fein point of view before the British public, received letter* warning them not to attend the House of Commons yesterday. The inference drawn was that Sinn Fein had planned an outrage, but were foiled by the Government's precautions. The incident recalls that Lord Montutgle, a Catholic Peer, was warned not to attend Parliament on November 5, 1603, the day on which Guy Fawkes was to blow up the House, and this led to the discovery of the plot. ] There is only one entrance to Parliament for strangers, and the carriage gates in, the palace yard are closed against all vehicles. Nobody, unless accompanying a member, ,is admitted to any portion of the building, and even. tnen is not admitted to either Chamber* or tie inner lobbies. Many detectives are employed. Permits are issued to officials and employees. The fire brigade is co-operating to safeguard all vulnerable parts of London. An Incendiary bomb, set with a time fuse and placed in a portmanteau, exploded at one o'clock this morning and wrecked a warehouse in Upper Thames Street, London. There were no casualties.