2 APRIL 1921, Page 3

The Sinn Fein incendiaries in England were again at work

last Saturday night. Hay and corn stacks were wilfully set on fire at farms near New Barnet, St. Albans, and Beaconsfield. In the neighbourhood of Newcastle and South Shields some forty

farmyards were blazing simultaneously as the result of these criminal outrages. There is no crime more despicable than the wilful destruction of the farmer's produce, and the Shin Feiners could not have adopted a course that would be more likely to set British public opinion dead against them. The cowards who shoot policemen from behind walls might be expected to start surreptitious fires in lonely farms.