THE IRISH REBELLION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 44, 26 May 1916, Page 5

THE IRISH REBELLION.

DEMAND FOR ABOLITION OF YICEROYALTY. Unitbr Peek* ■^■"•ooiatton. London, May 25. Lord Rosebery demands the abolition of the Yiceroyalty of Ireland, .vhich he considers is a useless and :ostly sinecure. JOHN MCNEIL FOUND GUILTY. London, May 25. A court-martial found John McNeil, president of the Sinn .Fein Volunteers,; guilty of complicity in the Dublin riir? ing. Sentence was postponed. LENIENCY FOR THE TRAITOR; white; M* , ' London, ', May. #<*:; j *|f ; White (son of General Sir, White, defender of Ladysmith)" "was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The prosecution stated. that , White had trained Lar kin's citizen army in Dublin, and later incorporated the Sinn Feinors. White was Ja£ge|y, 3 associated with Sir Roger Casement, Countess Markievocz, Connolly, and., Plunkett, and urged the miners to strike so as to compel the Government to deal leniently with the rebels. CASEMENT AND BAILEY. TRIAL FIXED FOR JUNE 26. > (Received 9.4 Q a.m.) ~~ London, May"2o. '" The special Grand Jury returned true bills against Casement and Bailey. This is the third occasion in seventy--** six years that a grand jury was empanelled on a treason charge, the previous being in the case of Edward Oxford, in 1840, for attempting to shoot Queen Victoria, and also at the trial of Colonel Lynch, in 1902. Justice Reading assigned: counsellor the defence and fixed the trial for' Juni 26th. .•--..'■-"'.- m •(■■/:*.- , -?-■-'•'•'•3*l '. ——a—_ ■ ■' ■ ■ ■■"■' ■ STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS.;- — •,'' n MARTIAL LAW SOON CEASES. ' '- BREAKDOWN OF IRISH GOVERNMENT. NEGOTIATION WITH IRISH LEADERS. NO DISCUSSION AGREED UPON.

The High Commissioner reports':London, May 25 (4.45 p.m.) ; In the House of Commons Mr As* quith said that martial law in Ireland would soon cease. In the meantime the composition of the Executive in Ireland must be provisional. Mr Lloyd George and he, at the unanimous request of their colleagues, would negotiate with the Irish leaders. The dominant feeling is that the breakdown of the Irish Government is a unique opportunity for a settlement, and he appealed to the House not to discuss the situation, and not to cast away hopes of a real settlement. Mr Redmond said the appeal of Mr Asquith not to debate the question was a test of the genuineness of the desire of the Irish Party to settle the question now. Sir Edward Carson willingly adopted Mr Asquith's suggestion.