THE IRISH REBELLION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 12 May 1916, Page 5

THE IRISH REBELLION.

NATIONALIST MANIFESTO. i PROTEST AGAINST ANARCHY. APPEAL POte SUPPORT OF CONSTITUTIONAL MOVEMENT. IRELAND’S INCREASING PROSi PERITY. / ■ FATE OF THE COUNTRY IN THE BALANCE. (Cnitko Phkhh Association.! (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, May 11. The Nationalist manifesto refers to the mad and unsuccessful attempt at revolution, and solemnly appeals to Irishmen to choose between anarchy or the full support of the constitutional movement, as no mean course was possible. It recalls the fact that two-thirds of the land is now in the hands of the people, and the reminder is becoming so. The Irish laborers are now the best housed, most comfortable, and independent in the world. Most of the poverty-stricken

districts have become happy and prosperous, and the constitutional movement has been trumphantly vindicated ; therefore, there is every right to demand that the people should uphold it till its mission is accomplished. On their answer the depends the fate of the country.

POLITICAL CIRCLES AGITATED. London } May 10. The Irish problem continues to agitate political circles. The National- I ists and Radical extremists are gravely concerned the continuance of the executions. It was' announced to-day • that Lord • Wimborne had resigned, and that Lord ; Mac Donnell had gone to Ireland on | public business, it is rumored as tem- I p'orafy Chief Secretary, '• Other Liberals desire Mr Churchill to be appointed, though the National* ists and Unionists object. The : Manchester Guardian is of opinion that Mr Churchill will at least* blow a strong draft through Dublin Castle. Mr Churchill seems to favor the extension of the Military Service Bid to Ireland, and on that basis will agree to a'settlement of the Home Rulp Bill. • Skeffingtoa’s widow states that her husband was arrested on April 25, when returning home on the second day of the rising. He was tried on' an unknown charge, and shot forthwith. She says: “My husband was unarmed anti a non-combatant. He was an earnest and well-known pacifist. I was not allowed to see in husband, to receive a message, or to bury his body.” *

H. A. Nevinson, a journalist, stated that when arrested and shot Skeffington was engaged in posting placards calling upon the people to desist from looting.

Mr G. Bernard Shaw proposes that the Sinn Feiners be handed over to General Joffre and formed into an Irish Brigade, and allowed to expiate their offences’by fighting for France as the Irish brigade did at Fontenoy.

SKEFFINGTON’S LETTER TO DAILY CHRONICLE. (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, May 11. Skeffington, in a letter to the editor of the Daily Chronicle on April 7, warned him that the situation in Ireland was extremely grave. The military were pursuing Prussian plans unobserved by the British public. When an explosion occurs, the militarists would endeavor to delude the public as to where the responsibility lay. Hewrote in the hope that there was enough sanity and common sense left to restrain the militarists while yet there was time. He points out two distinct danger points, (1) the Irish Volunteers are prepared to resist forcible disarmament; (2) the Citizens Army will similarly resist disarmament, and also any' attempt to suppress the journal of the Workers of the Republic, the successor to the suppressed “Irish Worker.”, The British militarists in Ireland know perfectly well that both organisations are comprised of determined men, and if General Friend itermined men, and if General hrench [disarmed the volunteers or raided the Labor press, it will only be because ho wants bloodshed, and because he iwants to provoke another 1798 and get I an excuse for a machine-gun massacie. 1 The Chronicle did not publish SkelTington’s letter, but on receipt forwarded it to the responsible authoiities. ! j THE LOOTING IN DUBLIN. SKEFFINGTON CASE. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, May HMany prisoners are being tried in Dublin for looting. So anxious were the looters to get rid of the plunder

that they Hurresptitiously deposited hundreds of pounds’ worth in the Catholic Churches.

j J. Maclntyre was shot similarly to Skeffington. •$ They were journalists and conducted obscure newspapers, which were from time to time suppressed by the Castle authorities. | STRONG RESOLUTION BY IRISH M.P'S. ADVICE TO THE AUTHORITIES. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London. May 11. At a meeting of Irish members of the House of Commons, Mr Redmond presiding, a resolution was passed expressing grief and horror at the destruction of property in Dublin; the movers, knowing the inability of the sufferers or ratepayers to make good the damage, emphatically declared that the Government ought to bear the cost; they were also convinced that the continued executions would increase the bitterness and exasperation; it was not in the Empire’s or Irelahd’s interest that that. there should be further executions; and they urged the immediate annulment of martial law. COURT-M ARTIALLED AND SHOT. (Received 11.45 a.m.) London, May 11. Thomas Kent was court-martial-led and shot at Fermoy on Tuesday morning.