11 JUNE 1921, Page 2

The Sinn Fein gangs who are still at large in

this country made a concerted attack on the telegraph wires outside London and Liverpool on Tuesday night. Many wires were out on the roads and railways. At Harlington, on the Bath road, a passing wayfarer came upon a gang at work and was held up by an armed man until the party had entered a waiting motor-car, Outside Liverpool, near Gateacre, the police intercepted six Sinn Feiners who fired at them and escaped. A gang of four wee, however, captured at Bromborough on the Cheshire side of the Mersey. The average Englishman regards the Irishmen who do such wanton mischief as criminal lunatics. The Sinn Feiners wholly misconceive the English character if they think to derive any political advantage from these silly outrages.