SINN FEIN REBELLION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2761, 3 May 1916, Page 5

SINN FEIN REBELLION

1 _ • " LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS!" PROCLAMATION BY "REPUBLICAN'.'' GOVERNMENT" ,:! ' 1 " REPORTED RECKONING FOR THE IRISH EXECUTIVE By Telegrapl-PrcEs Association-Copjrisht London, May 1. Official.—"All the Dublin commandoes have surrendeied " On Sunday night the Provisional Republican Government issued tno fob lowing proclamation, signed "Pearse, Commandant-General of the Forces": "In order to prevent further slaughter of unarmed people, and to" savo the lives of our followers, iiow surrounded and' hopelessly,outnumbered, the members of the Provisional Government at Heailquarteis ha\e agreed to an unconditional surrender. The commanders of' all Republican units . will order: their followers to lay down their arms." HOW THE CALL TO REBELLION WENT FORTH ' REBEL LEADERS' PROCLAMATION nv , , . " . London, May I» the rebel proclamation states: "In the name of God and the dead generations, fiom uhich Ireland* has received her traditions and nationhood, we summon lieland's children to strike for freedom. Having waited for the right moment, and trained our manhood through the secret revolutionary organisation, and tnrough the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, Ireland strikes m full confidence of victory, supported by her exiled children in America and her gallant Allies in Europe." The proclamation claims the right for the'people of to the owner* ship of Ireland; foe unfettered control of Irish awtime,, v. ba sovereign and indefeasible. '