HC Deb 28 February 1921 vol 138 c1432W
Mr. CAPE

asked the Home Secretary whether he has received any definite evidence connecting recent incendiary fires in Lancashire in any way with the Irish Republic?

Mr. SHORTT

Documents seized in Dublin show definitely that incendiary fires in England are planned under instructions from the Sinn Fein headquarters in Dublin, and it is believed that these fires were part of the plot thus disclosed.