THE IRISH REBELLION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 42, 24 May 1916, Page 5

THE IRISH REBELLION.

BEFORE THE COMM)!gSION. fUmTBD PsBM Al«*OOT*»T»iw.l V London, Mky 22. Continuing^this ’ evidence, Lord Wimborne said that ’General Friend left Dublin on Thursday before the outbreak. Lord Hardinge; Who gave him leave ? Lord Wimborne.: His leaving was part of the Irish system. Everybody leaves Dublin on bank holidays. The admiral at Queenstown received information as to Casement’s departurefrom Germany, and that a ship, accompanied by tw r o submarines,might be expected off the coast at Easter. That information was not communicated to the Jrish Government.^; Lord Hardinge asked if it was not extraordinary not to have communicated this news to General Stafford, the acting commander, or to- the Government. .. . ■ ' Lord Wimborne; I think! extraordinary. ‘ , V Asked: why, when on Easter Sunday the Under-Secretary ''was in favor of raiding Liberty Hall and the Sinn Feiners arsenals, this was not done, Lord Wimborne replied that there was not time, and he objected to arresting until able to arrest the leaders. Lord Wimborne stated that he had sighned warrants for the arrest of the Sinn Fein leaders. He wanted to have at least a hundred arrested on Saturday or Sunday, and was to com-* municate with Mr Birrell and Mr Asquith deploring the further delay when the outbreak occurred. . ■ —__ —— •. ■■ SEVEN REASONS FOR THE AISINC London, May 22. Mr Massingham, writing in The Nation, says: “The/t>ublin rising is due, in my opinion, firstly, to the formation of the Coalition Government and its resort to conscription; secondly to the principle policy of compromise and twist and the disarmament of volunteers, which was a bold blow to their organisation; thirdly, to the English administration by absentees and Mr Redmond’s absorption on the English side of the Nationalist movement; fourthly, to the gradual loss of the finer idealism of the Sinn Fein and the absorption of the Fenian spirit; fifthly, to the temptation the war offered to old revolutionaries; sixthly, to sentmont at the severity of the suppression of Dublin strikes; seventhly, to Ulster’s resort to force when Ireland was settling down to its abandonment.” SENTENCES OF REBELS. London, May 23. Two rebels at Dublin were sentenced to death, but the sentences were commuted to imprisonment. Seven others received sentences ranging from one to ten years’ imprisonment.