Show t tl- tl ti i RA RAVISH VISH IRELAND 4 a SI Y Yf j f I r s WHOLESALE I 0 FIRE PLOTS A Plan to Destroy Official Records and Plunge c Irish AdUl Administration c in ill in Confusion Confusion sion slon Staged cd by wadi Radicals Radical cal By Ry ti Robert J. J P Pr lv Service stiff Staff Com Co nt Special Cable LONDON April The Iho Sinn J I Fein ew n plan to destroy all an British records and plunge the time country's administration lion tion lion into confusion was put into oj p oration cration last night when fires were Merc started in official buildings all over Ireland Belfast was isolated from the rest of the world The land wires and U cable to England were out and the thc only means of communication was the telephone The Grand Central hotel in which I arc located the tho pensions labor an another and other departments and the Bank of ol Ireland eland were entered during during- the nigh t tand I and a a. largo Q number of at documents w de destroyed The raiders then tried to tc burn the buildings but a a. fire tire brigade ade prevented this Summary of or A At t a a. late hour tonight this authoritative author e summary of the week-end week havoc oc I throughout hout Ireland was given Sixty one police barracks s were destroyed destroyed de de- c- c and twenty ono revenue offices offices of of- raided and their contents burned I Three desperate blazes were found in the Income tax offices The elt city and public buildings s wore were under strong stronE guard toda today Dispatches Dispatchers hrs hr's this tills evening e state tc the tho city is cairn calm and th the auth authorities have ha the situation i j in hand Attempts were also made to set lire fire I to the Belfast custo customs custons Js house and two excise offices I In every cas case fire was started bI b by pouring petrol over o tho the floors and furniture fur fur- ur I and then applying applin a match Are r i j Most of the tho men who started the blazes wore wor-e dis disguised as 8 postmen Some I were m masked sk II and armed When hen communications with Belfast t I were partially restored this evening ItI it n was gs discovered ere that a wave waYe of oC destruction destruction tion had swept over o the thc province of oJ I Ulster Police barracks baracks In all parts part of the i province pro ha had been burned down don or or ft ort t blown up The conspirators conspirator sou sought I out mostly the smaller towns Revenue Rc I offices also were ignited on a largo large I scale calc Belfast tonight is still cut ut off arc from front II Dublin t At Londonderry men singing sing republican republic sons songs cut the hose lines as firemen were wro tr trying ln desperately to tu I save sa the revenue offices and the pension pension pen pen- sion slon office from rom burning to the round ground r Republican King Flag The Tho Irish republican fa flag was hoisted hoist holst- hoisted ed NI er the conspirators carried out their work of oC destruction At U Sinn l Fc fliers raised I the republican colors on th the flagstaff in front of the harbor commissioners commissioner's s official residence Th Then n they cut the tIle halyards and greased the pole to prevent prevent pre pre- vent ent the tho removal remo of or tho the Sinn l' l Fein eln cin emblem Throughout hout Counties s Cork and Clare disguised and armed en glen destroyed police barracks At t this cabling c the record of oC police barracks destro destroyed cd In Inthe Inthe Inthe the various coun counties lies h in as aR follows Limerick 6 G Clare 17 Down 5 of Armagh Ar- Ar Armagh Armagh Ar Ar- magh 2 Roscommon of 4 Cork 4 T Tyron Ty- Ty ron 1 Total 31 I 1 The Dublin correspondent of the London London Lon Lon- don Dall Daily ally Herald 1 quotes a a. Sinn Fc Fein n loader leader as lS saying there will wIn 1 be e no re rebellion re- re hellion bellion in Ireland it helm being generally ncr would simply result re- re realized that a rising re sult suIt in a massacre nere 7 People 11 1 i iThe The Sinn Fein time the leader now h has lus s a n. discipline which ever even e lion Iron Guards could not emulate t embittered over o The I people are re deeply th the 1 Incredibly stupid policy polley of or Dublin castle which the they believe was deliberately deliberately ratel adopted for tho the purpose of or provoking pro- pro Insurrection Sl Sensational stories are arc told of mysterious mys mys- m mysterious s- s shootings in the time Mountjoy pris pris- on It is asserted several oral rounds were tir fired Wednesday night ht by br the military quartered in tb the prison and that further fur fur- further ther shots were exchanged t twice earl Friday morning II o. n l. l oCo Un h nl 1 Service lif Correspondent Special Cable DI Dispatch patch Dublin April 4 Easter to Kaster Sunday the fourth anniversary ary of th the bloody live tl uprising that thit laid tho the Co foundation un dation for the wide island movement mo for tor U. U an Independent republic Is nearing ate I Its end Mid without the threat of ot a repetitions repetition Continued C on pa page e 24 I SINN FEIN A PLOT TO DESTROY j BRITISH RECORDS Incendiaries Burn Many any IJ r Official Buildings ns and Records 4 41 1 Continued d from Pago 1 r rr revolt having beer beM carried out out- r However organ or organized throughout Erin yesterday r Is tho the Sinn rs r reply rawly lr to toI I tt tL tte e GoY governments government's raster Easter display of oC I ice With Ith tho same cunning system system tem and secrecy with which the tho many raids ralda on police and military have o been beau c carrier out during the last luIt feW fen months the re J or or r n a group of or c extremists t plied the torch to government o build build- togs Ins and aril especially special tax bu bureaus bureaus bu- bu here in Dublin and n other towns Police and fire guards s were kept Jept bus busy throughout tho cia day day though h In tn most r stances in-stances the they came cams too late to save sa of official Ucla 1 records from perish perish- In the flames banner m I St w No 0 tempt Attempt of tit rom wT T military r machine has this t Island nd In an Iron grip and unlike th the of oC Hit 1916 t the pr present day nt-dl nt leader lead lead- er rE of or tho rebel movement t r realized It nd fd passed the tiro word in in- n good son season son to all to-all all brothers of or the faith of freedom that there Is to bo be no attempt to shako simko o o. o off tho the chains b by force Instead by way by-way way of or endeavoring to prove provo that They rhey are arc rIOt nut entirely Impotent the Sinn I n TM used the stealthy weapon and used It with dam dam- damAging damIn zing Aging In effect In fn many quarters rl Iut as for a a. new armed armed rebellion as Its asfar far as the situation can bo be judged ed from this capital there Is no dan danger er nI 1 or nn tn m th Fein n i lod An extraordinary I 5 series cr of fires oe- oe In Dublin and nd Cork last Jast night I In In Dublin a L number of or blazes blazes' were smarted In the government so Income tax Offices The caretakers of or one government got gov building building- were held heM up b by armed men be before Core the torch was applied ap ap- applied ap- ap plied to tho the place Many Ian valuable documents docu doeu- rents ments Were destroyed In Cork th the pensions office and the internal revenue revenue rev rev- office were wro burned down 3 Much Mach Toiler f leth lly There Thero was as feverish fe police and mili mili- military military military tary activity all day at Cork Largo Large o forces constantly patrolled all streets All An automobiles were held up and the tho occupants questioned Eleven unoccupied police barracks barrack s w were ro burned or blo blown n up In tn count county C Cork rk Raiders In a Invaded cd the postoffice at Grenagh and seized much m mall matl lI British de destroyers arrived d In tho the Dublin bay bar carl early today Tho The military cordon remains drawn dran around the city clU After midnight several eral battalions o of oC f soldiers appeared In tho streets with armored cars 1 and d tanks People People- heading heading head hend- ing InS for the north side of or the elt city were turned back h by armed outposts A man found shot outside the city this morn morning InS InS' Is b believed lIc to have ha beena been It a government SP spy The military several houses this morning Tho The incendiary wave wao is widespread In iho south of or Ireland The The customs offices at Limerick are ar reduced to a pile of or ashes A A. Limerick county official wa was T s evicted e from his farm taken out into a a. field and shot Irish President to Return to Ireland IrelandS Ireland'S S 'S Special lal Cable DIr 1 to y S Ic London April 4 Eamonn 4 Eamonn de le Valera alera president of oC tho the Irish republic Is s re reported re- re ported b by the time Weekly Dispatch to beabout be beabout beabout about to tn come back hack to Ireland from m the thc then United States The paper claims claim s Information to the effect that tha st t J the report Is true Sir lEamar Hamar Greenwood Greenwood Green Green- wood the new chief secretary for Cor Irel Ireland Ire Ire- IreI I l land lair n will not Interfere with do de Valera 1 w the tho latter lands In Ireland a as s l r as he cant contents himself with constitutional constitutional con agitation If It tho tiro president t eh should ld foment disorder however cr h he e will be seized b by the government go It I Is Isa a asserted Or |