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SINN FEINERS AT HOME

THE LEADER AND HIS BOPHOCLES.

Mr. Harold Aaton, writing from Cork, gives an interesting description of the Sinn Feiners at home,

SINN FEINISM

HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT.

the

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THE SINN FEIN REVOLT. ORGY OF DRINK AND LOOT.

The Belfast correspondent of the Daily Vail gives further details of the gising in Dublin, supplementary. to those pub- lished in the Daily Press yesterday. He says:

The Sinn Fein movement, which in its wartime phases has led to the trouble in

How Countess Markievite surrendered Dublin, was inaugurated about sixteen A couple of thousand of them prac or eighteen years ago. It was an offshoot with a force of 120 rebels who had been in

Easter Monday had drawn thousands tically all quite young men of the shop of the Gaelic Longue movement. Sinn

of sightseers to the capital. The prin- at assistant and clorical type, with a fair Fein has no direct connection with the possession of the Royal College of Sur-

sprinkling of farmers and boys and Gaelic League organisation, although in *hobble-dehoys”—journeyed up to Dubnumber of its adherents are members of goons all through the rebellion in Dublin cipal business establishments were closed. was related to a Daily Mail correspond- but Sackville Street was crowded with The forest for the 24 hours ending at Noonlin by the race excursion trains, leaving the Gaelic League, which itself is a non-

wore on, little knots of Sinn Fein Volun to-day is as follows': ---

three hundred or so behind to look after political body. The words Bion (pro-ent by one of the Dublin public officials holiday-makers, when, as the morning "Countess Markiavitz was in command toers were seen to be approaching from Cork Their loaders admitted to me in nounced Shin) Fein" in the Gaelic lang- ourselves, Sinn being the the course of a friendly chat that things unge mean had gone wrong with them somehow in word for we, Fein, an emphatic of the party which scized the college, he many quarters Home were in the green frdand this week. This was over after particle meaning stifanid, and she defended it very stubborn- uniform of the body, but the majority As originally preached, the doctrine of. It was the last place in St. Stephen's wore in mufti. Most-carried rifles with Hoon tea and bayonet practice in the Ne Sinn Fein was one of self-reliance, and Green to surrender. At eight o'clock on fixed bayonets and haversacks while their Street G.H.Q of the clan.

Though they looked unutterable things this principle commended itself to many Saturday morning the white flag was bandoliers were full of cartridges. They they were quite friendly and eager to ar persons in Ireland who thought that too hoisted in place of the rebel flag and a thronged the tramway cars going city-

much dependence was being placed on gue about anything under the sun. British Parliament to improve the con- communication was sent to the officer com-wards, and in some cases took forcible cut throats of coming great deeds were light (but sufficient) adventure with ditious of the country in respect to gov manding the attacking force to say that possession of them. They sang rebel them provided a quaint sidolight upon crament and economics As inter dave the garrison would surrender at eleven songs and jeered at the people. Incober- bandied. The atmosphore became tense the war-the war as it is felt and os loped by those who made themselves pro

minent in the movement, the gospel of At the appointed hour the Countess with excitement, for which no particular preased in Cork E

The city was thronged with a holiday Sinn Fein assumed a more materialistic marched out of the college, followed by reason could he assigned crowd The pleasure steamer diabel aspect than in its original sphere, and it her force walking in twos. She was dress- The men congregated in over-growing packed with laughing trippers, was mov: became concerned with what was conceived

entirely in green green tunic, a greenings. The Post Office and its neighbour- ing gaily down the water in the bright to be its natural development in absolute ed, as she had been throughout the werk, numbers round the principal city build sunshine; the same light-hearted note of indifference to and contempt for the in-hat with a green feather in it, green hood was the rendezvous for many hun- festival was repeated again and again terests of outside countrica. It is a in the wide and crowded streets. Thore fundamental creed with the Sinn Foiners puttees, and green boots. It was a rather dreds; the Areenan' Journal, the Daily was not a soldier to be seen anywhere, that the Parliamentary movement had de picturesque scene. She led har mon to the Express, and Irish Independent ofices and hardly a policeman. Hundreds and moralised the people of Ireland, and that British foron, saluted the officer in com- were surrounded. The Four Courts and hundreds of young men were marching, before any progress could be made along mand, kissed her revolver bofore surren- the Castle were also centres of attraction apparently aimlessly, up and down, each Sinn Fein lines it was essential that the dering it and her bandolier to him, and to the rebols. with a blackthorn in his grip and some Irish party should be broken up, then announced, I am ready. Her men the Sinn Fein efforts was directed into armed escort through Grafton-street and thing bulging in his porket; and at the For several years the major portion of were disarmed and marched under an corner of a quiet street two tall members this channel, and, although the cult of Dame-strect to the Castle. of the Trish Constabulary were lolling un- Sinn Féin appealed to the imagination Referring to the damage done the Dub concernedly, watching a big, shuttered of certain sections of the community, it in official said: De house ever whose doorway blazed in gold over really nght on with the masses, the national emblem of the rising sun, and where the people were not indifferent, andave it, in letters a foot high,

they preferred in nine cases out of ten to support the Irish party. From time to time, however, the Sinn Fein move nient has made itself awkward for the Irish party. The first occasion when any sort of impetus was given to the move ment was when the country was dis the appointed at the fiasco produced by the

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There was nothing remarkable about their door except that the knob had been removed and the hole of it enlarged. I had not been in Cork an hour before I had discovered the Sinn Fein "password"

it was easy enough,

ON THE STROKE OF NOON.

As the blocks began to strike the hour A of noon the, rebellion was launched crowd of armed men rushed the Post Offics. The entrances ware seized and the lower windows, smashed in the first rush, were barricaded. The operators, taken by surprise, were soon overpowered. The men, many of whom are said to have secretly sympathized with the movement, were taken prisoners; the women were turned into the street, which by this time was a seething ass of howling humanity. With sticks and the butts of their rifles others of the rebels bad forced an en- premises. Machine-guns were trance into neighbouring shops and busi-

The destruction of the lower half of Sackville-street is complete. For about 700 yards there is hardly a building left on either side. Some have been burnt by the rebels, others have suffered from the shells of the military fired from the dis trict of Rathfarnham, a range of four miles About 200 rebels surrendered when the General Post Office was attack rejection in 1907 of the Irish Council od Here it was that Connolly was Bills devolutionary measure of which taken. He had a fractured thigh. Only nese

Sir Antory (now Lord) MacDonell was the walls of the building are left stand-mounted from the tops of the Post Office the principal author. It is no secret that

potent amongst the influences which

crackle of rifle shots could be heard, and now and again a shriek of pain above the wild hurly-burly of the shouting, swear ing mob.

barricades of the lower windows. The the Irish leaders of the party were me, and hard by the Hotel Metropole, and the barrels of rifles preped from the

newspaper-distributing firm, and originally favourably disposed towards the Freeman' Journal office, Eeson's the measures, but the Sinn Feiners were Thoms, the Government printers, have all suffered very badly. In fact, from the river to Nelson's Pillar there is very the damage amounts to £2,000,000, and little but wreckage. It is calculated that people are concerned to know whether the Government will give financial aid.":"

CARTRIDGES."

I whispered it through the hole. The door immediately swung open and I walk ed in, to be instantly confronted by a wild-eyed, ragged-haired slip of a youth pho jabbed at me with a bayonet and sent me staggering backwards. Behind him in the narrow passage were a dozen more equally wild-looking and similarly arm ed youths They pressed forward, flash- ing their bayonets and demanding to know by what traitorous methods I had gained admittance to their stronghold ***I said I represented The Daily Mail, THE IRISE VOLUNTEERS, and had two simple questions to tak whether it was true that the police had ordered them to give up their arms and ammunition within a certain time this afternoon, and whether to-day, to mor row, or at any other time they bad de cided to hold up Cork after the manner of their brethren in Dublin.

You sak questions of this somewhat traordinary nature in the same breath.

gingered the Convention held in Dublin under the auspices of the Nationalist party into refusing to accept the bill VAN

COFFIN

A man, said to be Jamer Connolly, or ganizer of the Irish Transport Workers Union, essayed to harangue the crowd from the Post Office.

BEALSKING AND PORTER

and in the same tove us if you are remark; constitutional, rather than new land's bakery. One of the last place. Boon to be seen on women with bare feet,ers)

ing of the weather-fu Cork

A BOILED BYROE

The young men with the bristling bayonets referred me to their leadora somewhat older man, who looked like Byson slightly soiled. He was unarmed, Save for a slim volume of Sophocles he carried in his white, ladylike fingers. He spoke in soft, cultured voice.

If they come to demand our arms

(19)

The next fillip given to the movement's was when the establishment of Sir

to the aput. Loof was the uppermost Edward Carson's Ulster Voluntpers Until Thursday the rebels were full The dregs of the city had been drawn pointed the way to Sinn Feiners to a of resolution. They were adopting many thought. Half the shops in Sackville new field of action, and it is due to them ingenious devices for getting in ammuni Street, wore sacked. Respectable citizens, that the rival force of volunteers was set tion At Rathmines two coins were holiday-makers from Belfast, and people on foot by the Nationalists. At the opened by the guarda: one contained of the most unimpeachable loyalty and outset, the Irish party sternly discount body and the other ammunition. A closed probity, to save their skins, were.com- enanced the idea of the foundation of hearse was full of ammunition. Op pelled to take part in the thievery

Nationalist Volunteers, believing that Thursday I saw about sixty dead of Sealskin coats and silk blouses were

anarmed, wounded men lying in the read near Bo methods held the field, but when the Irish Volunteer movement became too

porter; children who had never possessed widespread and strong to be ignored, surrendered was the South Dublin Work and ragged petticoats recking strongly of Mr. Redmond's party determined to cap house, in Thomas-street, where the white twopouce of their own were imitating The fires were appalling. People livin the middle of the turmoil and the ture It, and had little difficulty in doing flag, was hoisted through a chimney. Charlie Chaplin with stolen silk hats so LÊN

Then a schism set in with great suding in the district say that fram Killiney murder. In five minutes the entire con- denneas The section of the volunteers Hill, nine miles away, the Nelson Piller tents of a sweet shop disappeared and a who passed over to the control of the could be seen standing out against a rast bookseller's stock was being hawked at Irish party became known as the background of flames, The fire brigade bankrupt prices.

Meanwhile the rebels were endeavour- National Volunteers. The original found behaved splendidly. I saw them attack- be said, a trifle wearily as though heers of the force, rebelling against the ing a fire in Harcourt-street with bullets ing to make their position more secure. On the top of the Daily Express building were tired of discussing the obvious," we control of the Irish party, which pro whizzing about them.__________

Shopping was a desperate business machine-guns were mounted On Ste- shall shoot them. And as to your second dated a moderating influence upon that question, I very much regret to say that body, started a section of volunteers on during the week-end. Supplies had pro phen's Green entrenching was begun something has gone wrong with the ar their own account, who are known as tically run out. For a bullock's heart 48. Guinness brewery, a big bakory, and rangements We might have been in the Irish Volunteers, and these are the had to be paid. Bacon was 3s, a pound, Jacob's biscuit factory were seized A possession of the post office but for the men who were behind the trouble in the butter 28. 6d., but most shops were sold contingent took possession of the Four fact that the military got there first, Irish capital Dublin was their strong out of both. Potatoes were 25. a stone as Courts, while another attacked in half- They are there now, in strong force in hold-in other parts of Ireland they against 10d., and 2lb. loaves ad to 18 hearted fashion, it is true the castle. all the upstair rooms, where, I under were of much less account than in the many bakera carts were raided directly they left the yards, the people paid for stand, they have the consoling com Irish metropolis. panionship of a machine gun.com The war gave a new scope to the the bread but they left none to be de-

activities of this extreme section of livered.

From the beginning of smit When the news of the Dublin rising, hostilities it became their avowed object trickled through here on Monday after to put into practical effect the old maxim,

this "All Ireland for the Irish" battle noon we all retired into our armoured England's difficulty is Ireland's oppor barracks, loaded our rifles, polished rtunity, which since the revival of cry the clergy because they were desirous bayonets set in stores of provisions, and Liberalism in 1906, and the resnatatement of maintassing their influence over their prepared for anything. At midnight the of Home Rule in the forefront of politics, flocks, the politicians because they were

ISOLATED FROM THE WORLD. Bishop of Cork and the Lord Mayor came had become discredited in the ranks of anxious to avoid anything in the nature

Nevertheless, Dublin by this time was here and demanded admission. They were Nationalist masses. The Sinn Fein party of a critical dispute in view of the

isolated from the world. The rebels, once refused at first, but after considerable has been very strenuous in its propaganda future of the Home Rule movement.

How the Gaelic League, the Ancient in possession of the Post Office, cut the parlay we admitted them. They implored work in opposition to recruiting and us to lay down our arms and not to regenerallyagin the Government. If Order of Hibernians, and other nominally telegraph and telephone wires. sort to physical force of any kind. We it has come out strongly on the pro pacile organisations have been kept in Approaches to the city by road were all related Absolutely. Borrowfully the German side it is not because Sinn Fein formed or have approved of the schemes held by rebels, and no one was allowed has any love of the Germans, but purely of the extremists we shall probably know to enter or leave save at their pleasure. bishop bowed his head. Then I leave and simply with the ultimate idea of when the inevitable recrimination begin. In that matter every picket appeared to you to your fate, he said.

Leave us to it by all means

No all things considered, I don't think we shall rise in Cork.

Volunteerk

cause

The authorities, after an abortive lancer charge dows Sackville Street, during which several persons, including an off cer of the lancers, were shot, confined themselves to the defensive. At Amiens Btreet Station the revolutionaries met a hot reception. The officials, aided by police, barricaded the building and held it against repeated attacks, though two of them were killed.

We do not fear our fate, we declared bringing into being its ideal of an Irish As it is, the official Irish Parliamentariasto a law to himself, but motor-cars were

Republic under Sinn Fein controll hes the unpleasant fact to digest that

A considerable number of young men in Dublin, chiefly strange to say, drawn nothing could have been more likely to commandcoxed whenever they were on

disillusionment among honest countered. The roads were alive with from the Civil Bervice classe, have English Home Rulers than this lunatic these vehicles. Hundreds had gone in the rallied round the Sinn Fein movement, outbreak, of which the sale justification morning to Fairyhouse races and they and, still more curions, there has been seems to have been the complacent indol were all held up on the return journey certain leavening of men from the North ence of the Minister responsible for Sometimes the chauffeur was compelled, of Ireland, whom one would naturally Ireland. There has been little public with a pistol to his head, to drive reb expect to find in the opposite camp. In explanation of the rebellion. The habitual messengers on errands connected with the this connection it may be mentioned Bir oracles are dumb, a fact which is in itself rising sometimes the cars were drin Roger Casement, a native of co-Antrim of good angury. Siz Roger Casement is into Dublin, where they were converted who is now imprisoned in London, took the only man who has allowed his rame late street barricades. an active part in organising the to be associated with the rebel movement. Nationalist Volunteers before they came We wait for the elucidations of Professor under the Irish party, afterwards con- MacNeill and Mr. Kettle, tinuing his work in the ranks of the Sino Icin section of the Volunteer

But this fate you will fear,' said the bishop. I will excommunicate any mp of the Sinn Feiners who resorts, at this critical moment of our national history, either to arms or to any manner of phy sical force. And so saying he departai. When I left this amazing city, this sy ing all was peace in an area where at tuy moment those behind the scenes were pecting sinister trouble. Nothing pened, though the Sinn Teiners, bolbed and barred widin their gloomy fortress in Nile Street, still retained their arms.

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