ECHOES OF THE SINN FEIN RISING.
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We were not badly led; we were mis- led.". This was the statement made to me by one of the rebel officers who is now in custody (says n Press repre- sentative writing from Dublin. He was a young, intelligeur: well-spoken fellow, dressed from head to funt in a green re plien of a British officer's uniform. On Monday morning, he told me, orders were received by the Volunteers to assem- ble at certain appointed spots in the City, bringing their arms, and provisions for eight hours. There was nothing astonish-
the cattle and sheep fair on the fol lowing day the rebels entered Ennis corthy in force, looted some shops, and held a few prisoners as hostages. They coveted greedily the commanding beight of Vinegar Hill, but as they had no artillery to plant there they contented themselves with raiding and holding as much of the town as possible. There are persistent, reports of furious fighting in and around the town, but I can hear of Ho casualties..
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THE CASEMENT TRIAL.
CHARGE OF HIGH TREASON.
DETAILED REPORT OF FIRST DAY'S
PROCEEDINGS.
At Bow strect Police Court on My 15th, as briefly recorded in our cale columne at the time, Bir Roger Casom t and Daniel Julian Bailey, a soldier, wer charged with high treason on divers occa sions between November 1st, 1914, and
April 21st 1910.
A counter-charge by the Royal Irish Constabulary dislodged the rebels from a part of the town.
Croppy pikes (a relic of the old, home-made 8 arm) and
When the men were formally charged blackthorns were freely used, but what Casement declared that Bailey was inno there was of firing was ineffectual. Ancent and that he wished to provide for attempt to blow up the railway bridge Bailey's defence. was only partly successful, and only one area was held by the enemy outposts.
These conditions prevailed up to the last few hours. The arrival of the arinoured train and the sudden and
in this, for similar parades had taken place on several occasions pre: viously. But when they arrived at their most shocking appearance of Ennis stations they were surprised to find large corthy Emily on the scene settled the quantities of ammunition ready to be hash of the enemy once and for all served out, and still more surprised Enniscorthy Emily" is, by the way, wiven they were told to occupy specified the name given by her admiring and buildings and hold them at all costs, faithful crow to the deadly looking 15- until May 2 or at the latest May 3, when pounder. Emily" and, the armoured a forrige army would lund in Ireland train between them were too much for and march to their assistance. He and the rebels, who surrendered uncondition- many others frankly did not like the pro-ally during the day and gave up their jeet, but they were it." and they arms. A consoling sequel to this is the could not desert their comrades. So they official announcement. threw their seruiles to the winds and went into the fight, with föreboding in their hearts,
YPRES IS A NAVAL BATTLE.
BRITISH SEA POWER ». MILITARY
TYRANNY
“More men of the British and Irish. raco have died in battle about Ypres than shout any other place in the world, says the Manchester Giardian, Yet there has been very little plain speaking about the reason why and the real significance of the place in English history. Hastings, Crecy, Plassey, and Quebec each stands for something in English history.
Bailey, who was arrested, at the an
Does Ypres stand for something equally time as Sir Roger Casement, was an Irish.
definite? And in any case, why are we prisoner at Limburg (Germany), and ac cented Casement's offer to assist the Ger- fighting so desperately for the pussession mans: Bailey made a statement to the of a Belgian town? Is Ypres just a stick authorities that he was a reservist of to beat Germans with, or
there sune- Irish Rifles. He was employed as ather good reason why we should be fight- goods porter at the Paddington Railwaying thera rather than elsewhere?. Station, and was recalled to the colours. The true inwardness of the situaticin at the outbreak of war. He went to
seems to be that Ypres is really a naval France with the original expeditionary battle. No doubt the fighting has conte force, and was made a prisoner early in aliout there by a chain of events that are September, 1914.
Ladies, equipped with cushions and purely military, but the enl reason why our army is fighting there is that it is literature, arrived at Bow-street, at 1 o'clock in the morning. The police su against our interest as a sea power to There wereplied coffee, Others assembled before 5et the Narrows fall into the possession of o'clock. Hundreds formed a queue bea naval rival. Ypres is just as much a naval battle as Edward III's Battle of fore the court opened.
Sir Toger Casement arrived in a taxi-Sluys, on the coast not far away. The cab with an armed guard practically Germans, indeed, used to call the figating for Ypres the battle for Calais, and that secretly,
is what it still is... Their first plans for the invasion of France tuok no necount
no casualties," "Emily" is now released from one danger area (no longer dan- gerous) for demonstration in other quar- A purious brassard was found on theters, should that be desired. aim of one of the prisoners. Untit was removed it scenied to be an ordinary annst, with a red cross printed on a white ground, but on examination it was found to be a folded handkerchief, on the hidden side of which were pictures of German eltlas, with the name of each printed unterneath in German
Of the long and deliberate preparation for the rising there is endless evidence, In Liberty Hall, stacks of guns of all patterns and vast quantities of ammuni- tion were found by our troops when the rebels had been shelled out of the build ing. There were also hoxes of sporting eurtridge emés rendy to be filled, a fart which ves some support to the theory that the outbreak was precipitated by the discovery and foiling of the German
gun-rura.
Fiendish ingenuity was employed by the rebels in the manipulation of bullets so that they might inflict terrible wounds bullets were reversed in the cartridge: grooves wore cut down the sides in order that bullets 'should· “mushroom "
on
impact the points of softnosed bullets ys were blunted. For months past the rebek must have been making ready for the day when they would throw in their let with Germany and stab, not England alone, but their own country in the back.
LOYAL IRISHMEN.
Atating of the Liverpool and South-Wear Lancashire branch of the
· United· Ifkh Lengne the following - reno- lution was passed-
This meeting places on record its strongest possible condemnation of the insane action of a small section of irre- sponsible Irishmen in Ireland during the last few days. We denounce the proceed ings as being a treacherous outrage on Ireland and Ireland's cause and also against all true liberty, in defence of which in this war against German har harism thousands of Irishmen are now fighting.
ghing in affijn more strongly than ever our stedfast loyalty to the case of the Allies and the Empire in the present life and death struggle on behalf of our owny uxistence and for the freedom of small nations. We renew our whole harted pledge of complete confidence in Mr. Redmond and the Irish Party and we invite Mr. Redmond to address a great public demonstration of his countrymen at the earliest possible, moment in this
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The Press Association's Galway corre-kempu figure, in a long waterproof coatpied Antwerp and descended along thr spondent gives the following account of the revolt:- the situation there in the early days of
Was
The Sinn Feiners, numbering 408, cap- tured Orammer, and made prisoners of self with rifle and revolver, and the police. The sergeant defended him eventually rescued by a reinforcing party from Galway. Later on the Sinn Feiners marched on Galway, bat were checked by shells from a destroyer, which had just arrived in the bay. That night a policeman named Whelan was shot dead. and the officer standing next to him had arco escape. He fired 12 shots at seven. the enemy, and believes he wounded
One hundred-Fusiliers arrived two days later and marched to Athenry, but found that the Binn Feiners had cleared away. and were encamped at Moyode Castle, 1,200 strong. At night sotne prominent persona were arrested. At the house of one of them the police found 000 sover- eigns, and on uthers inerinsinuating doen- ments were found. A large number of soldiers were landed from a war-vessel.. Bread was scarce in the town, which was completely cut off. The line to Dublin had been smashed up and all wires cut..
POLICE AMBUSHED NEAR ASHBOURNE.
PLUCKY TIGHT AGAINST ODDS.
The opening thrill of the trial was the discovery that Sir Roger Casement was not the only occupant of the dock, but was accompanied by a red-haired, un over a khaki uniform. Casement walked slowly to the dock with head bent. He is tall and slim, and his grizzled hair was carefully brushed, Bailey, who is apparently an ignorant countryman, and bewildered. The secued dazed prisoners had no communication with each other. Throughout the proceedings Casement was a mass of nerves, and his movements suggested the most aente mental strain. He was not still for two minutes together-now nursing his thin and gnawing his long, lean fingers, now writing copiously at great speed, and paying no heed to the proceedings, now leaning back and staring at the roof. His face is not only aristocratic and fine, but spiritual. He is thin to the bones, and is evidently desperately ill. He is a typical example of the mixture of idealism, emotionalism, headiness, fer your, and recklessness, which has been the curse of practical politics in Ireland for a century.
realised bow dangerous our intervention was likely to be on land, that they occu- Belgian coast towards the Narrows, And there is reason to believe that the first desperation of their attacks on Ypres had one connection with their plans for a submarine blockade of the British Isles which, though it was not proclaimed till three months later, had already shaped itself in their minds. Nothing is so cer- tain as that if the Gernians were to win in the West they would keep possession of the French side of the Narrows, even though they craquated all the rest of Bel- gium and Trance, and hold it as one of the keys to the outer world.
Ypres, then is more to us than the name of n. town in Belgiam. It is the symbol of British sea power against a Continental military tyranny, and that. is the real reason that we are fighting there.
Ypres is the symbol bat, not, of course, the seat of sea power. The fight would be for the same object if it were ten miks north-cast or south west. The reason that
There was general laughter when a witness, in describing the reception of Casement's lectures, said that some of the soldiers called Casement a renegade," has centred round Ypres is that that and othere said he was up the pole is the point of equilibrium between the Another, who was questioned about what German drive to the south and the Bri Casement was doing in the prisonerstish drive to the north It is difficult to camps.
replied; Oh, he was spouting appraise valute in the course of a war, about." Casement told the Irish pri
but we think that the value of the British soners, to take no notice of our sun- defence of Ypres has been as much under- crowned king, John Redmond." As estinated as the value of our services in Casement left the dock, he delightedly the retreat from Mone and the battle of recognised two women friends.
the Marne, has been over-estimated.
A news agency correspondent at Bel- THE CROWN CASE fast writes the following account of the ambushing of a body of police in County Meath by the rebels, with the result that eight police were killed and 17 wounded and the rest were obliged to
on Friday time Meath police authorities received information that the rebels had attacked Ashbourne Police Barracks. County Inspector Gray, District Inspec tor Heary Smyth (Navan), and a force of 50 constabulary left in motor-cars for the district. Near Kilmoon, which is on an eminence, and at the foot of which small road branches off towards the village of Ashbourne, the police intended to get out of the motors and march to had secreted themselves in a small grove Ashbourne. The Sina Feiners, however, by the roadside ALE a place called GENERAL BOTHA'S MESSAGE. Rathgate: They had entrenched them Mi Redmond has received the follow-selves in the Belds, and at enel ug delegram from General Botha ond of the road they had taken up Capetown, April 99-Accept my heart. position for attack. Hardly had Felt sympathy and regret that a small the police got out of the motors section in Ireland is jeopardizing the when a fusillade of bullets was sent into great cause. I hope the Irish people will their midst. Sergeant O'Shanagher, of follow your line of action, and that your Navan, was shot through the heart almost policy will be successful. Louis Botha," as he was leaving the car.
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Sir F E Smith, K.C. (Attorney- General and Mr. Bodkin, K.C., ap peared for the Crown and Mr. Artemus Jones, K.C., and Professor J. H. Morgan
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The Attorney-General's opening state ment was not dramatic, and he spoke quietly and in a conversational tone of the most adventurous events.
the
reached the Irish coast at Tralee (on the coast of Kerry). The three entered a collapsible boat, and landed at one o'clock in the morning with ammunition, which they buried in the sand. Bailey added that he overheard a submarine was piloting a Wilson liner to Tralee, carry- ng 2,000 rifles, several millio arounds of ammunition, 10 machine gunN, hembs. A labourer named Hussey gaw a light flash senward, and the collapsible beat shortly afterwards canic towards the shore.
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Sir F E. Smith divided the case into three parts (1) The attempt to form an Irish Brigade (2) Germany's organisa tion of the hostile expedition; and (3) the actual landing. The Attorney-Gener al throughout did not refer to Case meat as Sir Roger," but as. made great play in reading a letter and gave the nanie of tichard Morton, prisoner, Casement, Sir F. E. Smith ment was found hidden in a ruined fort, THE Casement wrote to Sir Edward Grey Later in London, he confessed his (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) identity. Divers have since discovered in June, 1911, when he said he was much that the vessel sunk on the Irish coast moved by the King's decision to confer was named the Je, and carried. Rus- the honour of Knighthood. The letter stan, rifles of the 1005 pattern. began, Present my humble duty to his Majesty, and convey my deep aprecia- Br. Sir F. E. Smith tion of the honour.
The Aude at first refused lo accompany thereafter compared these professions the naval sloop Bluehell. The latter The Attorney General then outlined the Aude followed until nearing Queen- Casement's history. The evidence, hestown, when the dude stopped. The and hear the ditches. The rebels, how said, would show that in January, 101 Bluchell saw white smoke issuing from over, closer in from all directions, and: Casement repeatedly addressed the Irish the side. Two German unsigns were sent a messenger to the County Inspector prisoners at Limburg camp, describing broken. The crew took to the boats and demanding the surrender of all his men. himself as an organiser who was forming hoisted the white flag. The dude sunk Inspector Gray declined and gave direc-an. Trish brigaks. Casement invited the quickly. "The police found in the sand at tions to his men to return the Han-prisoners to join the brigade, and em
Bashlamos, mausers, ammunition, It was a home made fighting machine dicapped by their exposed position, the phasised that everything could be gained maps, and a railway ticket from Berlin slung together hurriedly, but very effee police nevertheless held their ground,
for Ireland by Germany winning the
to Wilhelmshaven, dated April 12, con- tively, out of materials to hand. It con- and the County Inspector fell wounded war. Irish soldiers had the best oppor firming Bailey's statement: also a flag
b sisted of an ancient but still serviceable shot through both hands, and part of the tunity they ever had of striking & blow which the Attorney unfolded in court engine in the proud charge of richly body. Several other ensualties occurred for their land. All joining the brigade yellow castle on a green background. hamorous Hibernian. There were two or among the police, and sniping proceeded would go to Berlin as the Government's Casement, while en route to Ardfort three steel trucks shackled to the engine, for over four hours and a half. District guests.
Barracks, dropped a paper containing a armoured with hastily pierced sheets of Inspector Smyth Whe twice wounded, In the event of Germany winning the code relating largely to the despatch of iron, and the whole amazing contraption but, followed by a sergeant and some sea battle, Casement promised to land was painted slate-colour. In the hinder constables, he pluckily crept along the the brigade in Ireland. In the event of rifles and ammunition by ships. annst truele tackle of scaffold-poles had roadside ditch towards the rebels, who Germany losing the battle, every man been erected for the slinging aboard of were gradually closing in. Sergeant would receive from £10 to £20, and a a couple of quick-firers, and guarding Young, of Kintoon, was next shot dead free pass to America these handy and mobile weapons was an Other constables were being hit, but one emergency crew of placid Tommies, one wounded policeman from beneath a of whom was enjoying the sunshine and motor-car continued to fire to the last,
Suddenly the rebels appeared on the he was hissed and boo-ed out of the Casement, About 50 joined the Irish Dockyard Managers, can be seen between the hours of lian, and 12 Yoon
A Bikecial Correspondent of the Daily
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A CASEMENT ATTACKED
John Robertson, a returned Army Medical prisoner, gave evidence that Cagement addressed the Irish prisoners. at Limburg One prisoner attacked
brigade.
* I am proud to say," said Sir F. Smith, that the majority treated Case ment with contempt. On one occasion the rest by reading à tattered-copy, of that literary masterpiece The Vanished ditch overhead, and the District Inspec camp. He was only sayed from violence. Bride." It will take me a long time to tor fell dead with a bullet through hip by his escort of Prussian Guarde
Robertson added that Irish prisoners Here Casement smiled and glanced at Pamphlets and manifestees were circu were better treated than the English. Forget the bewildering effect of this in- forehead. An unarmed chauffeur named congruous scene a khaki-laden armoured Kopp. in the employ of Lord Conyng his fellow-prisoner. Train endeavouring to advertise its im ham, of Slane Castle, was shot in the
"Continuing used the proposal were One manifesto said You fought for Sir E. E. Smith said the lated recounting Ireland's grievances, portance, mingled with priests and leg by an explosive bullet. His leg was
prisoners who peasants, church belly, fishermen, prin- afterwards amputated, but they had punished by a reduction.in their rations Belgium, though it is not more to you roses, and speckled trout.
expanded their last cartridge, whon, A few who were seduced from their al than Fiji He was asked to eign-form Presently a bell tinkled masically in seeing that further resistance was useless. legiance received certain privileges, and declaring his willingness to fight for the
adiacent signal-box, a huge Trishman they surrendered. Seventeen constables were given a green uniform decorated Ireland on the side of Germany, with fringed whiskers stuck his head were wounded, and the county inspector, with a harp. Bailey was one of these. out of the window, called "Right away! two sergeants, one district inspector,
WIN BUINED FORTHE The crowd was moving away when an- and four constables were killed. The Bailey, said the Attorney-General, bad other war scene moved into view-two rebels took possession of the policemen's been promoted to the position of ser trains, one of artillerymen and horses rifles and seized some of their equip geant in the German-Irish brigade, and the other with the guns and ment, but the men were afterwardsurrection in Ireland. Bailey had made which was intended to raise an in Timbers of light field battery with released. censes of ammunition piled on tracks, end The rebels, who had with them doctor &
&
a statement to the police on April 21 the vene brought up by a huge 15-pounder and two nurses, attended to the wounded asserting that altogether 56 Irish pri
Other Irish soldiers paye evidence that. with its Er snout cocked skywards police, placed them in cars, and gave toners had accompanied Casement to Looking for trouble. Upon the truck them a driver and sufficient betrol to Berlin, where they went to the War after the Munsters hooted and assulted bearing this monster was scribbled in take then to Navan. The leader of the Office and later proceeded to Wilhelmns Casement. everal were punished and checo that all could see, the words, robels expressed regret at what had been haven. Casement, himself and a third their rations were curtailed Father
Enniscorthy,
done, and asked the police to remember Irishman named Monteith had gone on Nicholson, an American priest, accom CCTV, Hiscorthy was in for it. that the Sinn Feiners were the military board U20 and sailed for Ireland. They nanied the brigade. A sergeant major în his nernoon I learner officially of the Irish Republic, and that the were forced to return to Heligoland the Dragoons was sent to the punish-
police should not interfere with them owing to an accident. The eventually ment camp for calling Casement
(Continued on ner, (lumn) ~ traitor when they were on active service:
had happened there. Taking ad
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John Cronin, of the Munster Fusiliers, gare evide Irish prisoners in Germany adly treated until Cato- mont appeared Then things improve
ne prisoners who did not join the Irish Willism Egan said there were. 3,500 Brigade were not allowed bread.
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