IRISH REBELS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2767, 10 May 1916, Page 5

IRISH REBELS

% THE DEATH PENALTIES .. DISCUSSION IN, HOUSE OP COMMONS !!:: By Telegraph-Press AsEociation-Copyrigal ; London, May S. In the House of Commons, Mr. As« quith said that steps were: being taken to ascertain what Government;•■ officials were implicated in the'lrish outbreak, * the Govornmsnt was also considering the form of' tribunal to bb'.'uscd to try the funk and file of the rebels. Mr. Kodmond asked whether Mr. As* • tjuith was aware that the continuance of the executions was causing' rapidly in« creasing; bitterness and exasperation; amongst a largo section of the'population l who had not .the slightest sympathy with' the insurrection; and whether, following General Botha's precedent in SouthWest Africa, ho would immediately stop the executions. , Mr. Asquith replied that Mr. Redmond had -from the first urged' this matter upon the Government;-His-,/ argument: had fallen on willing ears'as'to the importance of clemency to the ranlo and file, General Maxwell had been in direct personal communication with the Cabinet,The Cabinet had 'great confidence thai ho would exercise his discretion regard/ ing the death penalty, which would bj used as sparingly as possible, and only in the cases of those guilty in the first' degree. JN'o one was more anxious than General *- Maxwell and himself'that the cases in which the death penalty was imposed should be- confined to . the - narrowest limits, and that they should cease at the earliest possible moment. ' FURTHER EXECUTIONS :, FOUE REBELS PAY THE PKICB. » ... " tEec. May 3, 10 pimlj r. , , r, ~ Lon t f on, May 0. ■Four-rebels, Cornelius, Colbert, Edmund iient, Michael Mallon, and J. Heustoii wore sentenced to death and executed on Monday _ Kent was one of the signatories to the Sinn ten proclamation, and at official of the flutfin Corporation. ( -twenty-two 'others'„were sentenced 'U various terms of penal servitude: lather Matters, president of the TUx man Catholic University School at Dublin, has died of gunshot wounds received white standing at the door during the rebellion.

"TWO WEAK-MEN" MR. BIRREIH, .AND EX-YICERO* , ~ UNDER CRITICISM. . ■ ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) . (Eec. May 9, 5.5 p.m.) „„ ■ „ m . '■■■■■ London, May 8. The Times's" corespondent at Dublin writes: "The nice things- which. Mr. Asquith ; and Mr. Ecdmond said in tha House of Commons about Mr. Birrell (when the Chief Secretary for Ireland resigned) are not appreciated in Dublin, No Irishman ever supposed that he (Mr, Birrell) was more than mildly interested in Ireland. If Mr. Birrell hated trouble, the Earl of Aberdeen (discount Wimborne's predecessor as Viceroy) was one of those men who created trouble by try* ing to- avoid it. Nothing was ever done, everything was postponed, and popularity was sought by the easiest and most obvious means. Jobbery nourished in Ire. land as it has never done since the days of the Act of Union. Irish history during the last ten years is the tragedy o) two-weak men."

A CENSURE MOTION, i (Eec. May 10, 0.30 a.m.) <■ -VLondon, May 9. Lord Loroburn will move in the Housa of Lords a motion of censure on the 1 Government's pre-rebellion: policy in In - ? , •land. . TES CHIEF SECRETARYSHIP •'. ME; HARCOUET' DECLINES. •■■ ■ ' (Eec. May 10, 0.30 a.m.) London, May 9. The "Daily Mail" states that Mr. Lewis Harcourt has declined the Chief Secret taryship for Ireland, as his health is un- . , equal to 1 the strain, of a fresh, field of effort. - '■;"■ "■•■';. German preference to prisoners .:; ■;:; - London, May. 8. ' Mr. H. J. Tennant, in reply to aques> Hon in the House of, Commons; said that Germany was no longer differentiating it ■* favour-of Irish prisoners', of ivar. .