Irish Rebellion

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 June 1916, Page 3

Irish Rebellion

« — Items taken l'rom the Loudon JL>aily I Mail concerning tihe rebellion in Ire- | land:— ■Looted boots were sold at 3d « paa'. Practicably no money was circulated! in Dublin. Only the giant pi 11 are of the Post Office remain. Women rebels were armed with nuvtil revolvers. A captured rebel gun was of the oidb e>t .Mauser type. The Metro'pule and the liupwial Jlo. teks are wrecked. C'lury's Hotel is among the wel>knoWn places destroyed. The women uf Dulblin behaved didJy is the general verdict. Trenches were dug between the rails u.l Lansdowne road station. Looted cigars sold at is a box; gold watches at ls> each. ■Bluejackets pulling a gun thirough tlie streets were loudiv cheered. An 18-pounder was used to demolisii barri«ide.s on PhTbsborough bridge. Except for broken windows fclig lour Oourt-s are not d ; ama-ged. Rebels disguised as women did sniping from one Northumberland road house. In Bolrand's hakerv the rebels mule tlio bakers prisoners and forced them to make bread. Practically eveirv buildiing in Snckville street, from Henry street to Eden Quay is wrecked.

One party of rebels shot n Rritisli officer who went to thorn after they liad hoisted a white flag. 11l a cavalry chnrge down Sackr.'Ve street to clear the barricades flic only losses.) were horses. One rebel ruw w.is to get into the gardens and pose «« an innoceiiit gardene;" while the soldiers passed:. Kebels mnde a systematic raid oil 'bilkers' van* and carried off the contents to different strntemc points. "It will take fifty yeans for 1),,',, lin (o retrieve l her position," says a pn.niinent Dublin resident. It i.s sn'd thai a Dublin lis], ude pointed Countess Aiarkievitz out fo th. l British soldiiers who iai rested her. Cushions from commandeered motor car* and tramway oars were used t, line ftt. Stephen's Green trenrhe-. Tin protracted stand of the robe* is said to lie due te the I act tfia.t tlirv believed a force was mnrching to thenaid. In the attack on .Dublin castle threbels once carried, the yard but. reinforcements arriving, the defenders ejected them. A Orafton-street jeweller who tricl to defend his shop was held to tho floor while othere looted tJie stock.

W ell-to-do people were to be seen carrying a codfish in one hnndi and a loaf in the other, rations banded out I'y the military. Twenty rebels rushed a bouse m Northumberland-road and from the windows fired on unarmed policemen bet'oire they obeyed, the householder's order to depart. A daughter of « former judge, wiiom the Sinn Feiners are said to dislike was si lot in the leg on Friday morning as Nhe was dressing in her house t y a sniper at a window opposite.