June 8.
A systematic campaign telegraph and telephone wire cutting was carried out about midnight last night in the Uxbridge and Hounslow districts by six armed Sinn Feiners i motor-lorry who, i damaging 30 wires, drove rapidly toward London. A man whom the Sinn Feiners held up with revolvers informed the police, who are searching for the perpetrators.
Similar outrages occurred in the Liverpool district simultaneously. The police intercepted' a party of wire cutters at Gateacre and shots were fired on both sides. It is reported that. the wire cutters have been, surrounded in a wood.
'A large number of telegraph "ad and telephone wites were cut in several places around London, in-chiding many telegraph and signal wires on the Great Western and South Eastern and Chatham Railways.—Reuter.
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