THE IRISH REBELLION.
INCIDENTS IN DUBLIN. SOLDIERS’ ALARMING EXPERIENCES. (Received 1.25 ap.m.) London, May 5. Two soldiers 1 in Dublin who had been missing since Friday alter, having escaped from the Post Office, where they were imprisoned, have now been found unhurt under the ruins of the Colliseum Theatre. Two officers and ■'fifteen men were imprisoned in a cell of the Post Office. Some bombs were placed outside the door, and the prisoners asked if they must be left to burn like cats in a trap. The rebels then opened a ; ido door liberating them into the street, but they fired a volley killing two hostages wounding a lieutenant.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 27, 6 May 1916, Page 6
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109THE IRISH REBELLION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 27, 6 May 1916, Page 6
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