IRISH REVOLUTIONISTS SURRENDERED UNCONDITIONALLY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 102, 1 May 1916, Page 5

IRISH REVOLUTIONISTS SURRENDERED UNCONDITIONALLY.

END OF A DISTRESSING OUTBREAK IN SIGHT. / THE TOOLS OF SCUTTLING GERMAN ABBETORS. LATEST DETAILS OF ARMED RESISTANCE. THE FIGHTING GOING AGAINST THE REBELS. MOST DISGRACEFUL LOOTING IS PROCEEDING. FOUR HUNDRED REBELS MADE PRISONERS. (Reed. 8.55 a.m.). NEW YORK, April 30. A Reuter message says it. is reported that all leaders of the insurrection at Dublin have surrendered unconditionally. LONDON, April 29. The Commandant in Chief of the Home Forces reports that military operations for the suppression of rhe rebellion in Dublin is proceeding satisfactorily. What may be described as organized forces of rebels .ire confined to a few localities, principally in the Sackville Street district, where .the rebel headquarters appear to be at the General Post Office. ■ A cordon of troops round the district is being drawn closer around the rebels’ locality which appears to be confined to behind the line of their barricades. 1 Sniping from houses where small parties of rebels are established in various parts of the city continues. The district where it is most prevalent is north and west which are still in the possesion of the rebels. The clearance of these snipers is a matter of time. Considerable damage has been caused by fires. On Thursday a large fire .was still burning in Sackville Street. in other parts the principal centres of disturbance are the County of Galway and Enniscorthy. Disturbances are also reported at Killarney and Clonmel. Other parts of Ireland appear to be normal. The general trend of reports received indicate that disturbances are of local character. Friday night’s report from Dublin states that troops had been arrivingall day. There had been intermittent fighting, to the disadvantage of the rebels, principally around Jacob’s biscuit factory, which the rebels stocked with food on Monday evening. The building i s now afire. Connolly issued passports to persons desirous of leaving Dublin, and signed them “Commandant of the Irish Republican Army.” Some women carrying bandoliers of ammunition marched alongside the rebels. Considerable looting was done in Sackville Street, where rebels established themselves in shops and sold boots to women for 3d a pair, giving them away to the poor. The flat roofs are affording the rebels scope for their tactics—lying flat or hiding behind chimney stacks, thence firing on the soldiers, who have little chance of,replying. Rebels in outlying districts practised the ruse, when the military appeared, of pretending to be working in gardens. Immediately the troops passed, the hoes became rifles. Many soldiers wer e shot in this way. Free fighting occurred in the neighbourhood c;f; Jaeobfsi between loyalist women and rebel women who were trying to get food into the garrison. j . Fifteen hundred rebels entered Jacobs’ factory while 3000 workers were spending a holiday, only a few cleaners and repairers being on the promises. The ordinary rabble participated in the looting. Practically every shop in Grafton Street was cleared. Women and girls held their aprons and dresses as baskets to receive jewellery and watches. It is reported that a number of armed Sinn Feiners on Sunday held up a quarry overseers’ wife and obtained the key of the explosive store, whence they removed a motor-car Icr d of explosives. It is reported that 400 rebels wo r e made prisoner at St. Stephen’s Green. The “Central News” says the commander of the rebels is James Con- j nolly, a notorious syndicalist, who was Larkin’s lieutenant.