REBELLION AND AFTER.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2771, 15 May 1916, Page 5

REBELLION AND AFTER.

MR. ASQUITH IN DUBLIN > THE CLEMENCY PLEA A SINN FEIN PLOT By TeTegraph-Prees Asioeialion-OoDttieM London, May 12. Mr. Asquith arrived-.' at; Kingstown •. early this morning.'' ' He 4 drove * to- -ffie" Vice-Regal Lodge via many of the principal areas of the Tecent disturbances, and saw Saekville Street and the Four Courts. MB. ASQUITH IMPRESSED BY THE DESOLATION. ' (Rcc. May 14, 5.5 p.m.) ■. - London, May 13; When Mr. Asquiitb. arrived he looked weary and haggard. Troops guarded ths quay. The Prime Minister drove slowly along tho thoroughfares, and was visiblr impressed by the scenes of desolation.' •.- "• THE EXECUTIONS '-'"■;•■ London, May l£ "Manchester Guardian" saysi'V "James Connolly, and preoumablv pott, are now und4- death sentence,' out by an unwritten law must be nursed back to life before 'being executed. It will be some weeks before Connolly'is' suihcientlv strong to .stand Tip. What conceivable gain will there be in shootr ing him? There have been grave errors,' and some signal act is needed to efface hideous memories, such as the shooting of Sfceffington and two others who were equally innocent. 1 Sir. Asquith's maia object is to restore good feeling and cooperation. Such great ends demand great decisions, and, for Ireland, oil the policy of this testing time is summed up in the one word 'clemency.'-

CONNOLLY AND M'DERMOTT EXECUTED

SHOT AT DAWN : (Eec. May li, 5.5 p.m.) '.."' _ „ .. London, May IS. Connolly and M'Dermott; the Sinn fcia leaders and signatories to the rebel proclaination, were' shot to-day. -. There is intense satisfaction in London that the doveranient has not acceded ti tne clamour-for the -"reprieve .'of Cdnnolh-■ and M Dermott. They were tried oiMay 9, and Sir John Maxwell immediately confirmed the sentences, which wer< earned out at dawn, before Mr. AsaoitK arrived in Dublin SKEFFINGTON'S DEATH., STATEMENT BY HIS W1D0W...,

■ „, London, May 12. Mrs. Skeffington states lhat the day following-her husband's death the nulltnry surrounded her house and -fired through the front windows.. They then burst in, and placed herself, her "seven-year-old eon, and her maid under arrest, ransacked the house, and remote*? books and papers.' OFFICES RESPONSIBLE BEING COURT-MARTIALLED (Bee. May 14, 5.5 p m ) _~ ■ ' • London, May 13 Ihe conrt-nmrtial of the officer who is held responsible iu connection witl tha shooting of Skeffington has opened. THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND END OP DUBLIN CASTLE REGIME (Rec. May 14, 5.5 pm) ' London, May 13. ihe Daily Chronicle" urges the imme. diate creation of a National Council to Severn -Ireland, pending the granting of the full measure of Horn© B ule _ Other indicate that tha Dublin Castle system of administration/is definitely doomed, and though the LordLieutenant may not lie abolished, a new system of administration -will be created,martial law Relaxed . provisional executive rumoured;, (Rec". May 14, 1i.30 p m ) , r . .„_-,. .... London, May 13 \ Mr. Asqnith has- conferred with Sir Mackenzie Chalmers (Permanent UnderSecretary of State for the Home Department) at Dublin Castle. It is reported that Mr. Asquitli is: desirous of e:>tabli<yiing an Irish Executive,- partly administrative and partly deliberative, during tha period of the war.' Martial law has been rclased The inhabitants must be indoors between mid* night and four in the morning Sir John Maxwell has forbidden parw ades, processions, political.jneeting--, uud football, athletic, and hurling meeting/ anywhere in Ireland, without wnlien aw! thority from the chiefs' of- police. SUGGESTED APPOINTMENT OF PRINCE OF WALES. (Rec. May .34, 5.5 p m > London, May'lSr.. l A correspondent in a letter to tha "Daily Mail" suggests the appointment of the Prince of "-Wales as Viceroy pf Iteland; BEFORE THE MINE WAS FIRED HOW THE SINN EEIN HEAD CENTRE FAILED ' (Rep. May 14, 5,5 p.ni) 'London, May ft The Sinn Feiii rebel executive a> sembled on Good Friday, in Dublin, awaiting hews of the German gun-running enterprice. Mean while the ennssaues who had been dispatched with the news of its failure met with the motor accident at Killorghan (as was reported), and the news did not arrive. The executive thereupon, by eighty-six votes to eighty-two, declared-for the rising without further delay. When the news of the failure of the gun-rnnning expedition was eventually, recehed it crcafc. Ed confusion, and some attempt wa« made to' countermand the order for tho rising, but it did not meet with-success. [The. emissaries' nibtor-car jumped over a bridge into the River Laune, near Killorghan, and three of the passengers were drowned. Two bodies were recover, ed, on which were found revolvers, ammunition, and Sinn Fein badges ] CULMS FOR COMPENSATION NEARLY A' MILLION AND i. HALF TO DATE. (Rec. May 14, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 13 Five hundred claims for compensation ia connection with tho. damage resulting from the rebellion in Dublin—and claims amounting- to ,£l,4oo,ooo—have already been lodged. ■ .. PLOT TO KIDNAP SIR EDWARD CARSON HOW SINN FEIN SCHEME MISCARRIED. London, May 12 , The "Daily Telegraph's" Parliamentary correspondent states that eudence exists that the Sein Feiners plotted to kidnap Sir Edward Carson from the residence of Mr. Ronald M'Ncill, M.P., <it Cushendall,- on Easter Mondaj The plot miscarried owing to Sir Edward Careon's inability to visit Ireland through' the shortness of the Easter recess. MOTION IN UNITED STATES CONGRESS. Washington, Ma\ 12 A resolution expressing the horror of the American people at the execution of the Irish rebels was introduced by Representative Dyer in Congress It is iot probable that the resolution will bo Jabated, . ...