THE IRISH REBELLION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 37, 18 May 1916, Page 5

THE IRISH REBELLION.

THE TRIAL OF TRAITORS. ! CASEMENTS COMRADE. Cvnrn 1- avsg AssocuT.ns. 'Received 9.55 a.m.) London, May 17. Fcgeant Hrstvvick, of the Roy: i Irish Constabulary, giving evidence said that Bailey asked that witness' superior officer he called as soon as possible as he had important information concerning the ship about to land amis in Ireland, and offered to give the information if released. ; Inspector Britten, who was summoned, gave evidence that Bailey made a statement without any promise that ho would he released, though witness promised to bring the matter under the notice of the authorities. Bailey told a storv that a Wilson

■ liner captured at the commencement ’of the war which was to arrive at Feint on Easter Monday or earlier, I with arms, etc., as the Attorney-Gen-eral had narrated. There would be a simultaneous rising in Ireland witlj the attack on Dublin Castle I Bailey said, and added he had landed with Casement at Monteith from a submarine. DUPED BY GERMAN LIES. London, May 16. Mr T. P; O’Connor, in an article in Reynolds’ Newspaper, states that an overwhelming majority of Irish condemned the rebel movement as insane, futile, and dangerous to the national cause. Even in Dublin the insurgents represented a small section. Phousands of youths wore brought into the rebellion under false pretences; many thought it was an ordinary Sunday parade and their mothers kept ihmr dinners hot expecting them to return.'

Hundreds of others were incited by lies. They thought tiiat thirty thousand Germans had landed in Kerry, that a German submarine and a tor-pedo-boat were in the Liffey, that France had made peace and that Lugland had avowed herself beaten. The credulity of these unfortunate dupes was played upon in many ways. German money and agents had been pouring into Ireland for some time. Doubtless Germany never intended to attempt an invasion of Ireland, but German politicians are not averse to risking the lives of many Irishmen in order to embarrass Germany’s chief enemy.

Mr O’Connor believes that Casement did not think the rebellion opportune, but Berlin forced his hand. The tragic events have sobered all parties, hence there are immediate prospects that, by mutual concessions, all the Irish parties will combine and solve the Irish problem. „ The discovery of Casement’s code was due to the alertness of a boy, Arthur Collins, aged 13 years, who gave evidence that he 'was driving a trap near Ardfent, when lie met two police and Casement. The police asked Collins to drive them to Ardfent. Collins saw Casement drop the code, and he drove back from Ardfent and recovered it.

At the inquest on Patrick Beaten, whose body was dug up in a Dublin cellar after the rising, the jury found that Beaten was unarmed and wasshot by soldiers woh were holding him as a prisoner. Medical evidence favored the theory that Beaten was shot from a distance.