CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 May 1916, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

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Tiiu lit. Hon. £l. H, Asquitli interviewed, said that a number of labels were confined in .Richmond barracks. .Sentries wore still on guard in the chief, thorough (area. The search of houses continues, and there are numerous arrests daily. 51r -i. Redmond's manifesto was widely discussed and the jiciieral tendency was to support. His appeal. Connolly issued an order oil the 28th rallying his followers. It said: "We have every confidence r-liat | o :,r allies in Ce-many and kinsmen in Amerioa are straining every nerve 'o help us." A young Kngifvljivonian, interviewed, said she was buying stamps at :he post office on Easter Monday and ivas lint allowed; to leave. Bhe was T>r<j 11_;ht before Pearse and a man of German appearance. Pearse said that they had formed; a republic and ''you had better stay, for there may be bloodshed. AIT Ireland soon will be in our possession ,nnd ibetore .'England realizes tlie situation German armies wi'«! land to assist us." Pearse was confident about llie "n----vasioii of Ireland and England, and' she was shewn proclamations printed in German. She and other women were terrified when the shelling began. Pearse bade them lie resigned atldi asked them tu kneel while n priest conducted a brief service, and the rebels sang "Faith of Our Fathers." The women were taken at midnisiht to + he backyard audi helped over a wall. Two women preceding her were eTTot dead, and she felli into an officer's arms, md was taken to the hospital. Borne oi the men detailed in hole?, the post ifice during the .shelling went mad and begged to be shot.

Several off the ringleaders of the rebels have been arrested in Gal«viy. Those at Athenrv are still in biding.