CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 May 1916, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

i , ♦ I ißLKCl'ltli; TELKUKAI'H —UUP i ttlOi*i . J J rUKHti ASSOCIATION, j lACCUbATIONti AUALNSx TKOOl'ia. Loudon, May 19. The lit. Hon. H. H. Asquith, at Cork, interviewed members of the Municipal Council, the clergy, ':he military and the police. He received an ovation on leaving tor London. Many accusations of brutality are current in Dublin, including an accusation that soldiers kitieu unarmed an.i unoffending citizens. General) Maxwell, interviewed, said that there was most desperate fighting in North King street. The rebels tired from roofs and upper windows, moving irom one house to auothoi, I sometimes escaping, i'roin back doors | and. then firing on the troops Iroiii behind. Each house had to be sear ihe:!. "We found rebels always hiding I behind women. They threw way their ritles and herded Like timid citizens with their wivca in the cellars. It was difficult to control the troops Jn such circumstances. V» hen tliey saw their comrades killed by treacherous assailants without uniforms seme may have seen 'red.' " General Maxweli has ordered * ulio strictest enquiry to be rnadie and will parade the battalion concerned to see if the accusers can identify the officers and men responsible. Some alienations were false, lint he had m;uro orders to establish claims tor Government compensation.

(Keceived This Day 8.45 a.m.) THE IRISH REBELLION. London, May If. -Before tlie Commission to enquire into tlie cause ol' the Irish iobelliou the Rt. Hon. A. Birrell saki, he did not desire to add or modify to Sir Mattiuw Nathan's statement. lie read one ol' his owu that tlie followers of the Jsinn Fein League ied many brave fellows to their doom in the uelief that -any was better than none. If at the outset o) the war Homo Rule had not been placed on the Statute .Book there would have men a revolt. He contended that, the gun-running a Ulster, tlie Orange Covenant, adicl the Provisional Government, with ail the pomp and cue ui instance of rebellion, had produced -i prejudicial effect on the disloyalists cise where. and th'jio was spine abroad that what others ivere allowed to do they could .'o. Ireland through Mr J. Rodmoud's patriotism, iiad preserved in war time an UinibroKwi front, (out many did not agree with Mr Redmond s attitude. It was impossible to over-estimate t'iie effect oi Sir E. Carson s entering the Cabinet produced on the minds of jlie people. Had Mr J. Redmond entered the Cabinet he -would not have remained lewder vi the Nationalists. No | doubt Uermau assistance was at •ue ! bottom of the rebellion, and* the war had turned many heads and upset r i«t prudent calculations. Replying to Lord HarUiuge he said that lie realised in the past two yea rs that there was a daugerows movement, lie had evidence that disarmament would, have been a dangerous policy. Mr Redmond had stated in tlie Hoi.se I" i • | > of (Joinliioiicj Lli-at tlie bum lieui'iva were negligible. 'I did not attajli much importance to his opinion in that matter, because 1 was quite sure that they weie dangerous. Mr J. Dillon also strongly favoured non-intervention. We had daily reports from the constabulary in al> parte enabling us to xoriu a cortect opinion.

AMERICA WANTS AN EXECUTION - STAYED. Washington, May 19. President Wilson, has cabled to ho British Government asking for a delay in the execution of Jeremiah Lyjioii, until the American Government has time to investigate.