FULL STORY OF THE OUTBREAK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2759, 1 May 1916, Page 5

FULL STORY OF THE OUTBREAK

TOLD IN DISPATCHES FROM , DUBLIN • TRINITY STUDENT'S GRAPHIC NARRATIVE, . . By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. April 30, 5.5 p.m.), - London, April ,29,. Mr. M'Dermott, a Trinity Collep;o student, states: "On returning from the races at Dublin on -.-Monday- -we were warned not to go by way of St. Stephen's Green, because the rebels' were seizing all the vehicles and converting them into barricades. AYe pa-o-wl the Post Office, , from which a llajj, bearing the legend 'Irish Republic,' was flying. The windows were broken and the building appeared to be deserted. Two dead 1 cavalry horses were lying in the roadway outside. ' Eater, I was told that the rebels had possession of the Green where they were entreuched. They had also occupied some' of ■ the surrounding houses, and the co'lego surgeons' thoroughfares leading to the Green had been barricaded with vehicles." • I

Next morning M'Dermott went down Saokville Street and found that it had been barricaded with barbed wire, also with cabs that had been overturned, and trams. In a thoroughfare turning out of Sackville Streot the rebels lia<J looted a cycle shop and improvised a barricade of crates and machines; "We went along to Trinity College," he says, "and were given rifles and cartridge belts and assisted to maintain a watch from the windows, where, with others, we sniped at the rebels with accuracy. ; .

"A-bout. eleven, o'clock fairly . heavy fighting was heard from the direction of tho castle. We fired • three rounds at the enemy, _ who was handicapped through having; inferior weapons to t ours. Throughout the day firing was maintained. We first learned that the rebels held the two newspaper offices near the Castlo and a house almost next door. From nine o'clock , until, eleven in tho evening there was fairly, brisk firing at St. Stephen's. Green. - Clearing Out the Vermin, "We dispatched pickets up Dame Street, and these succeeded in clearing the rebels from the: houses. .'This system of attacking. houses with pickets

was extended successfully and largely accounted for the effective way'in which the hostile forces were gradually'penned in a ring. A section of the troops was brought up at eight o'clock on Wednesday morning to deal with: ..'Liberty Hall.' With a counle of small guns, shells of small calibre were pumped into the building. They did . not contain high explosives, but within five minutes the building was reduced to a uitiable spectacle. Altogether forty shells struck the building, the first demolishing a green flag which floated defiantly from the roof. The noise was deafening, and the bombardment was accompanied by the ceaseless rattle of ma-chine-guns and rifle fire. - The rebels had evidently withdrawn-the, back "vay, for they did not reply to the fire of the troops, who dashed forward with fixed bayonets and established themselves in tho ruin, the whole, building having crumbled under the bombardment. Lpon top of Trinity College soldiers w-srp' posted with a machine-gun in a window' and fpught a duel with the. rebels in

the houses in Sackville Street, who were also armed with a machine-gun, but the latt-er's fire was ineffective."

Mr. M'Dermott heard that a, ma-chine-gun had been turned upon the rebels in St. Stephen's Green from tho Shelboiirno Hotel. When he left Dublin tho situation was well under control. ... ■ . .

SNIPING FROM ROOF-TOPS (Kec. April 30, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 29. The "Daily Chronicle's" Dtiblic correspondent, writing on Thursday, says: "The rebels still hold. Jacob's fci j ouit factory, whose roof commands the Castle, and also occupy the Post. Office, 'Four Courts, and Amiens Street Sta- ' tion. Desultory sniping from roofs continues. As general conditions are returning to normal tho authorities are unwilling to destroy ' property from which it is necessary to evict the rebels. Tho rest of tho country is quiet. Dublin has had no trains sinco Tuesday. Tho attempts of the Sinn Feiners to arouse Cork and Limerick were fruitless. The telephone and telegraph lines throughout the country aro under military control. j

HELD A PRISONER OF WAR

1 A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR. >" (Rec. April 30, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 29, It' is reported thait Professor John 31acA T eill, Chief of Staff cf tho Irish Volunteers, has been held a prisoner' since Monday—whether by the authorities or by tho insurgents is not known. Professor jUacNeill repeatedly warned' the _ more activc of the Sinn' Fieners against the evil consequences of their policy, and enlisted the support of the Archbishop of Armagh, who, Shrougli tho clergy, circulated, Professor. MacNeill's warning on Sunday. ("Professor J. MaciYeill was (he originator of the Gaelic League. He las held the Chair of Early and Medieval Irisn History at the University 0 f Dublin kiuca WQ9.]