The Sinn Fein campaign of incendiarism was extended to Newcastle
on Saturday night. A policeman found three men trying to break into a bonded warehouse, and arrested one of them. He proved to be an Irishman who had lived in New- castle for a few months. The police found explosives, cotton waste, and Sinn Fein pamphlets. The same night an oil store was set on fire, as well as a timber yard at South Shields. On Wednesday night a dozen farmyards round Liverpool were set on fire. Six armed ruffians were captured. It is known, from the Sinn Fein plans recently seized in Dublin, that the rebels regard fire-raising in England as one of their methods of warfare. The German-Americans tried the same method in the United States before President Wilson declared war on Germany. We confess our inability to understand how the Sinn Feiners expect, by such crimes, to persuade Great Britain that Ireland must have a Republic.
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