IRISH REBELS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1921, Page 5

IRISH REBELS.

OUTRAGES IN LONDON. FIRE RAILWAY SIGNAL BOXES. ARMED MEN AT WORK. SINN FEINERS ARRESTED. By Telerraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 19, 5.5 p.m. London, June 17. Sinn Feiners last night attempted to set fire to a number of railway signal boxes around London. lhe most serious outrage was at Clapten, where the assailants fired revolvers, wounding the signalman, who managed to telephone for assistance. He reached the next box, where he was medically attended. The outragers at Southall poured oil on the instruments and woodwork after partly gagging the signalman, who was ju*t able to shout for help, and workmen from locomotive works nearby arrived just in time to prevent a fire. A similar attack was made at Barnes, where the 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 bound him and threw him on the roadside. The taxi then disappeared. Nine arrests have been made. Scotland Yard reports that the signal box outrages are the work of Sinn Feiners. The men arrested are all Irishmen, aged from seventeen to twenty-four. They were c.rmed with revolvers, wire cutters and paraffin. At Dromley (Kent) the police stopped a taxi, when six armed men fired. The police returned the fire, wounding Robinson, who was recently acquitted on a charge of incendiarism. He, with three others, has been charged with firing at the police with intent to murder.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

Received June 20, 12.10 a.m. London, June 18.

Further attempts were made to damage London railways last night. Sleepers on the Brighton line at Battersea were set on fire but were extinguished before serious damage was done.