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The-Saelic memican.
August 26, 1916,
GENERAL MAXWELL’S LYING REPORT,
His Story of the Easter Week Robollion in Ireland a Tissue of
the Most Glaring Falsehoods—Attributes to the Revolution-
ists Who Pu
p the “Cleanest Fight” in History, the Very
Acts of Which His Own Soldiers Were Guilty—The Man
Who Has Inaugurated a
Ireland and Whose Hands
Saturnalia of Lawlessness in
Are Red With the Blood of the
Irish People Whom He Had Shot Without Trial, Makes
Ovt a Brief for His Masters, .
Butcher-in-Chief Maxwell, who inaug-
urated such a reign of assassination and
lawlessness in Ireland and under whose
regime it still flourishes openly and un-
checked, has submitted hts report of the
Easter Week Rebellion in Ireland. It
is doubtful if a more brazenty lying
statement were ever issued. It {is
Troastrously and veo aons
that even the poor old debauched Free
man could hot swatlo it, and had wo
draw the lire and denounce Wt dear.
ing that Maxwell should courtmartial
the subordinates who misted him into
making the charges contained therein.
s
ot only made lying his forte, but de-
veloped it into en art and ralsed it to
the nth power of its perfidy. Maxwell
is simp!y upholding the tradition and
carrying ft along and ft must be &:
he is doing it thorougaly. However his
lying will not accomplish anything this
nows
or chivalrous
made than that made by
ine ps rebels in Dublin. Everyone
who participated in it had all the at-
time.. The whole worl
his} ammunition, to retiev
to the insurgents and so completed his
acco:
really cannot blame poor
well. It was anything but pleasant | for
him te contemplate that it took betweo2
thirty and forty thousand troops armed
with artillery and" machine guns an, on-
Ure week to subdue a handful of rebets
whe rere ever over fifteen
as “i Ploasant “or him
tobe ra tees wes t 70 per cent. of
his own soldier sivere taken to
were siaty suffering from
“nervous shock.” The vartous inct-
dents of bravery displayed by the rebels
roe, where
o
{ one hundred
and sixty-four policemen, besides draw-
ing from Di over seven thousand
soldiers; the magnificent achievement
of young Heuston, lieutenant of the
Scouts, who teen years ok
and who ix men held up fifteen
hundved soldiers for hours, in Mendi.
city Institate, Usher's Island;
the ine worl of De Valera
who ed only eighty men sprea
over Ringsend
where they encountered the Sherwood
Foresters, who although they used
liquid gas and incendiary bombs
lost 1,500 in killed besides a number of
venge som
pened. The following | is the report:
MAXWELL'S REPORT.
Field Marshal a tara ¥ French, in con-
ing the report of General Sir John
Maxwell on the Irish insurrection states
d be observed that the Re
5 M., on
April 24, and that , oe P. M. on the
Mn to reinforce tbe ea and other
jr way from Athlone,
He was in-
8 to commence
the transport could be ar-
v eeneral Sir John Noxwelt in the
rt, states that on
5 P. M. a telephone
mescage was received from the
ing that Dublin Castle was deing at
‘ked by armed Sinn Feiners. This
was immediately confirmed by the Dub-
Nn Garrison Adjutant, who reported
that, ne ine absence of Colonel Kennard,
the Gi der, who had left
bis Smee shortly beforé and was pre-
the rebels from feturning, he
avaliable in Dublin at this moment
“Sh th. Res, Cavalry Regiment, 35 of-
ficers, 851 other riaks,
R Irish Rogiment, 18 officers,
385 orrer rank:
ath R. Bxtitn Fusitlors, 37 officers,
430 ‘other re
other ranks,
Of these troops an‘ inlyiag leauet of
400 men, which for some days p:
been held in readiness, proceeds dat
once, and the remainder followed short-
ly afterwards. 12:30 M., a tele
phone message was sent to General Of-
ficer Commanding, Curragh, to despatch
Un by trains which were. bein;
from Kingsbridge.
the comm
the Third Res. Cavalry Brigade. =
ve
TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION,
Almost immediately after the des
patch of this message telephonic com-
munication in
terrupted, and from vs
art
aid] was reported that the Sinn. Feiners had
seized the General Post Ofc
As the occupation of the G.! 0. by the
Sinn Felners denied the use of the tele-
graph, eeege reporting the situa-
tion in ‘Dunit as sent a
to the Naval Contre a tt Kingstown, ask:
ing that the information of the Rising
might transmitte wireless
through the © Admiralty to Field Marshal
Lord Fre:
er Possession of
the magesine in Phoenix. Park, wher
the rebels had set fire to a quantity of
e the Castle,
guards on Viceregal
to strengthen the
reached the Ceatle 2 the Ship Street
entrance. At 4 M. the first train
the rogh arrived at Kings-
bridge station, by 5:20 P.M. th
ole Cal column, 1,600 strong,
under the mand of sooner Portal,
had arrived, one train bei
from Kingsbridge to North Wall by the
loop Hine to reinforce the guard over
the docks. :
During the day the following troops
were ordered to
(aA hattory Ot our 1 18-pounders R.
F. A., fro es, Artillery Brigade
at Ainlone: | the Fourth Dublin
Fusiliers from Templemore; (c) a
composite battalion from Belfast; (4)
an additional 1,000 men from the Cur-
ragh.
REGIMENT HELD UP.
R. Irish Regiment, on
their way to the Castle were held up by
the rebels in the South Dublin Union,
which they attacked and partially occu-
pied; a detachment of two officers and
Sixth Res. Cavalry
Kegiment,
was sur-
nded in Charles Street, but succeed-
ed in parking their convoy and defend-
and a half days, when they were re
lieved; during this defence the officer
in command was kied and the remain-
ing officer w
rebels fa se. Stephen's Green
were attacked, and pickets with ma-
chine guns were established in the
Club and the Shelbourne
troops, Dubiin, reached the Castle with
another party o! f the Third
R. Irish Regiment The defence or the
docks at North Wall was undertaker
F. ‘somerville, commanding a
detachment from the School of Mus-
xe Dollymount, reinforced by 330
ers and men ol ‘inth Reserve
Cavalry Regi t. cupation of
Liberty Hall, was carried out at night,
t assistance in later
operations against Liberty Hall.
SITUATION AT MIDNIGHT.
uation at midnight was that
the military held the magazine, Phoe
Park, the Castle and the Ship Street en-
trance to it, the Royal Hospital, all bar-
racks, the Kingsbridge, Amiens Street,
and North Wail railway stations, the
Dublin Telegraph Exchange, in Crown
Alley, Electric Power Station, at
‘igeon House Fort,
Mount tjoy Prison, and Kingstown Har-
The Sinn Feiners held Sackville
Bereet and. blocks of buildin;
side of thls, including Liberty
with their headquarters at
thé Four Courts, Jacobs’ iseatt fac-
tory, South Dublin Union, St. Stephen's
Green, all the approaches to the Castle
except the Ship Street entrance, and
many houses all over the city, especi-
Hall,
GP,
th Res. Covalty Regiment towards
Sackville Street
¢ fighting ‘arengths of the troops
4
\
ally about Ballsbridge and Beggar's
Bush.
The facility with which the sion!”
Feiners were able to selze so many {m-
Third R. Trish Riftes, at officers, 850 in
t had | M- Low
t
The frst bleed undertaken by the
| troops were
and | te
Trinity College, | c
ings on each | tal
nortant points throughout the city was,
in his opti to
armed bodies of civilians had been cone
tinualty allowed to parade In and marc!
through the of Dublin and
throughout tne country. without inter-
Dublin pol
t night, and
arrived in Duplin early on the morning
of the 25th of April
@ had informed him that at a con-
ference wit! French tt was de
cided to despatch at once two infantry
brigades’ of the Fifty-ninth Divisfon
from England to Ireland, and that the
Kineebridee station at 3:45 A. M., with
the leading the Twon mtys
fifth (Irish) Res, Infantry Brigade, and
4 of the f
e Ci
tagh Mobile Column of 1,500 dismount.
ed cavirymen, and of the Twen-
ty-ffth Irish Res, Infantry Brigade. In
‘der to relieve and get communication
with the Castle, Colonel Portal, Com-
h Mobile C
from Kingsbridge Station to Trinity Col-
- | les cae ote Castle complet-
in, April a, gna with very
mile toss. t divided he bel forces
gave a sate Ot advance
for troops extending ‘operstions to the
north or south, and commu
Bicotion by despatch ridet with some
the Commands. é oni jeans of
communteation previous to this had
been by ferephone, oynteh was unques
tionably bein;
The Dublin Univeratty OTC, under
Captain E. Iton, and sudsequently
Major jarris,
thé Collego buildings. the day
R. Dublin Fusiliers from Tem-
& composite Ulster battalion
from Belfast, and a battery of four 18-
pounder guns from the Reserve Artil-
lery Brigade at Athlone arrived,
this allowed a cordon to be est: neni
round the northern
n was cleared of rel
cade near Phibs! Soroush was destroyed
A artillery fire.
ULT ON “EXPRESS” OFFICE.
one a heavy fire was being
the Castle fro
Fusiliers under Sec: tenant F.
O'Neill, The mafa forces of the rebels
now having been located in and arou!
jackville Street, the Four Courts and
adjoining bulidings, it» was
try to enclose that area north of the
Liffey a cordon of troops so as
localize as far as poasible the efforts of
the rebels.
‘owards evening the One Hundred
and Seventy-eighth Infantry Brigade be-
own, and left by
column,
=m
s
ed this with great gallantry for three| Battalit
yal Hospital, where it are
rived without opposition.. The right
column, consisting of the Seventh azd
Fighth Battalions, Sherwood Foresters,
by the main tram route through Balls-
bridge, and directed on Merrion eae e
ant Tri Thi:
ington Road and Northu
Road which was strongly held by rebe
but with the assistance of bombing p-r-
ties organized and led by Captain Jeft- ve
ool at EI
At 3:25 P. M. the Seventh Batialton
Sherwood Foresters, met great opposi-
tion from the rebels holding the schools
and other houses on the north side of
the road close to the bridge at Lower
Mount Street, and two officers, one of
Adjutant, Captain Die-
though ‘rounded, remained in
(on.
At
cetved that thé advance to Trinity Col-
lege was to be pushed forward at all
costs, and therefore at about 8 P. M.,
after careful artangements, the whole
umn, accompanied by bombing par-
ties, attacked the schools and hotises
where the chief opposition lay, the bat-
ions charging 1
cers were id of
other ranks 216 were Killed and wound-
feadiness shown by there two
g
a
battalions te eoerring of epeclal men-| and
tion, as I understand the majority of
the men have Jess than three montha’
vice.
oD yiew of the opposition met ‘with, it
‘was not considered advisable to push
the fact that] 1
at] a
o| the numerous snieers, w who bec
mn, } Pearsé, asking for
about 6:30 P. M. orders were re-| had
on to Trinity College | ‘that night, so at
1 P.
wt _Btatordsbire
Regiment fro jundred
and Seventy-txth * svafantry Brigade,
reinforced this column,
geeupy ing the positions gained al-
wed the two battalions of the Sher
‘ood Foresters to be concentrated at
onnection with this
to mention t
men, ladies, nurses and women scr-
yn | Vants, who at great risk brought fn and
tended to the wounded, continuing thetr
efforts oven ” on deliberately fired at
by the
“REVERA FIGHTING.
Meanwhile severe fighting had taken
place in the Sackville Street quarter.
t G6 A. M, Liberty Hall, the former
headquarte:
attacked by fleld guns from the south
bank of the River Littey, and by a gun
from the patrol ship Helga, with the
result that considera ble progress was
made. “During the night of April 26-27
owing to their being fired upon by the
‘ebels, roughout the further
troops of the One Hundred and Seventy-
sixth Brigade arrived in the Dublin
area,
on April or one Fitth ancers. Becont
Sixth Sher Fore!
Irish Regiment, the Clster Composite
Battalion, under the command of
one! Portal,
2
2
a
gs
&
M. ming of a cordon round
the rebola in Sackville Street ai
which operation was carr!
small loss. By nigh
and Seventy-seventh
Brigade had at Kingstown,
where it remained fot the
FIERCE TIRES.
t 2 A, M. on April 28, General Max-
well adda, he arrived at North Wall
and found many buildings in Sackville
23
3
2
fire going on in several quarters of-the
After a conference with Major
General Friend and
Lowe, I instructed the latter to close in
on Sackville Street from east and west
and to carty out @ house-to-house search
In areas He was able to place
,| the Second Fourth Lincolns at his dis:
ing thé southern part of the city and
forming @ complete cordon round Dub-
if in,
uring ‘the afternoon the Second
itth and the Second Bixth South Stat-
fords arrived at Trinity Colece, and
this additional force allowed
begin the a wisraon
round the Four Courts area in the same
way as the Sackville Street area, which
had already been so successfully {so-
lat ed.
During the evening the detachment
ot the Sixth Res. Cavalry Regiment,
which had been escorting ammunition
d rifles
an
been held up in Charles Street, was re
lieved by armored motor lorries, which | h
in| had. been ro
ughly armored with boiler
plates by the Inchicore Railway Works
dat my disposal by Messrs.
Guinness, .
Throughout the night the process of
driving o ‘bels in and round
Sackville Street continued, yu,
these operatioas were greatly hampered
by the fires in this area and by the fact
that some of the burning houses con-
a} tained rebel stores of explosives, which
troops had a trying time dealing with
troublesome during urs of dark-
ness. 0 the considerable oppo-
sition at Nyerricades, especially in North
King Street, it was not unti
on April 29 that the Four Courts area
was completely surrounded. rough:
out the morning the squeezing out of
the surrounded areas was vigorously
proceeded with, the infantry bein;
greatly assisted by a battery of Field
Artiltery commanded Major Hill,
who used his guns against the buildings
held by the rebels with such good effect
that a Red Cross nurse brought in a
Message from the rebel leader, P. H.
terms. A rept
sent that only pacondttionat surrender
would be accepted. earse
surrendered sett * Nacondttionsily,
and was brought before me, when
‘ote an ned notices ordering the
"conmaios" to surrender un-
al
rons
condition
uring the evening the greater patt
of thé rebels in the Sackville Street
and Four Courts area surrendered.
MR. MDONAGH'S HESSAGE.
on April a0. sata General
“two in-
Maxwell,
ks
formed mé that the ‘rebel leader Mae- | men.
He was
Jacobs’ Biscuit Factory, which he held,
jonagh and his
condi-
Stephen's Green
area, Countess Marktevica and her ban.
had surrendered and were taken to the
Cast ese surrenders practically
ended “the rebellion in the City of
Throughout the night of April 30-
May 1,
isolated rebols continued to
tematic house-to-house search for rebels |
arms was continued. During the
severe fighting which took place in Duy
Hn the greatest anxlety was caused b:
the | disquieting reports recetved trom
many parts of Ireland, and chiefly trom
Dubiin, Meath, Louth, Galway, Wexford,
‘einers, was| of
Brigadier General t
from Nort ‘all, and had | unarmi
me very | rendere
jot the
Clare, Kerry. On April 27, a8 soon as
troops became available a Getnchinent
was sont by sea fro
Arklow to reinforce "ene garrison at
Kynoch’s Explosive Works, and a small
party was sent to assist the R.LC. post
over the wireless station at Skerries.
28 @ battalion of the Sher
wood Foresters was despatched by rail
to Athlone to protect the artillery and
military stores there ai old the
a-| communication over the River Shan-
,| sistance givon by a number of medical] non.
REINFORCEMENTS,
Brigadier General Stafford, gine Gar
rison Command
directed to use
employment’ of troop
mand, and on April 30 be
of the One
Brigade, Sixtieth Division, a battalion | ¢,
yal Marines, and later by the
remainder of ne Hundred ‘ani
Seventy ninth B
igadier enews Hackett-Pain, who
the troops in
Uiater, made effective use of the troops
under his command, and it was largely
g§ a more active
egan and completed by 5} ing
n| the report on April 28 that a body of
Royal under In-
spector Gray, had been at
the rebels at Ashbourne, which resulted
in Inspectors Gray ani and eight
constables, being killed and fourteen
wounded.
It was not until April 80 that he was
able to spare a mobile column to dea)
with this body of rebels, the leaders of
which were secured.
other parts of Ireland similar at
tacks on police posts had been made by | Wert
In order
1$-pounder gun, and an armored car,
DEFINITE AREA.
Each column was alloted a definite
area, whieh. in close cooperation. with
the local Tour
Ganceroue Sinn Feinere and me
ere known to have taken an
part in the
addition many arms belonging to Sinn
Fatn ners were surrendered or s
‘he presence of these Columns had
the best possible effect on the people in
country districts, in
troops had not bee:
That splendid bod:
Metropolitan Police, could give him lit-
tle or ‘no se sta cé, because they were
hey ~ been
doubted. it the “plsing in Dublin would
who
“active
cheertulness, courage, and good
Une, under the most trying conditions,
was oxcellent. Althoush doors and win-
dows of shops and houses had to be
broken open, no genuine case of looting
d been reported to him, which he con-
sidered reflected
of Trinity College; the clergy of all de-
nominations, civilian medical men, Re
Cross nurses, who were untiring in
their attention to he wounded, often
reer | avy fire, ambulances
provided by Ri mbulance Corps,
the Irish Volunteer Training Corps,
and the members of St.
Training Corps motor cyclists, who fear-
lessiy - carried despatches through
streets infested with snipers; telesral yh
operators and engineers, and from the
lady operators of the Telephone Ex
change, to whose efforts the only means
of rapid communication remained avail-
be
lad to be able to record m:
opiaton n” he adds, “that the feelings of
bulk of the citizens of Dublin being
inst the Sinn materially in-
Busnced the collapse of the rebellion,
I deplore the serious losses which thi
trooee vand the civilian volunteers hay
suffered during these very dieagrecable
operations.”
SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT.
in lementary report on May 26
General Maxwell arams attention to the
dificult condi under whic! ie
troops had act, and says that the
rebellion Dern t, Sian aeiners, pre-
sumably a hoot
gstown to| rt
-| was was done by
|) in various centres, 8s, the fi
°) used
t| R.
was Captain Scovell.
‘| gazed in
moreltesaly shot down, as, indeed, rere
11 who
sence a number of
the worst flements of the ety Joined
the rebels and were armed’ by ti
daily record of the Dublin Mnststretns
Court proves that onsh looting as there
ich elements,
There have been numerous ¢tnctdenta
ot deliberate shooting 0
se courag:
fhe City Fire Brigs
mn consequence of Incendiary fires, were
Melo nd kad t
ve “conDox OF ‘nROOPS,
ascertained that
ine “rebels tad. + aabitene d themselves
upper wind
ed barricades.
or
8
in the South and North of Ireland were | Sensi a particular house known to be
restrained trom teh
part. in the re
General Maxwell ‘pays a tribute to the
RA
strong] troops suffered
severe tosses vn eatabltaning these cor.
dons, and, once established, the troops
the execution of thelr duty, the follow:
ing losses occurre
‘kiMea, ‘Wounded,
46
Other re 39 288
I wish to draw attention to the fact
that when it came known that tie
and time was given them
to consider thefr position.
I cannot imagine a more difficult sit-
uation ‘hea that in which the troops
of these employed
were oer finding battalions, or young
‘Yerritorials from England, who
uring which
here was “ considerable amount
of teotetcd snipin
BHA vioUk OF TROOPS.
under the circumstances
above,”
as
Rising “wore arrested; in| mann
hich fects
creait on their discipline. ‘allegations
the behavior of the troops brought
y notice are bein ing most carefully
inquired inte I glad to say they
are few in number, and these are not
. | all borne out by direct eridence Num-
erous cases of unarmed persons. killed
by rebels. during the outhreie ‘rave been
reported t Instances, I may
he select the “following tor your ijnforma-
tion . Brien, a constable of the Dub-
con-| In Metropolitan Police, was shot ventle
6n duty at Castle Gate, on April 24.
the same day another constable or | te
at Mount Street Bridge, white bei
dtiven into Dublin by in Scoveil,
A.M.C. ‘All these were unarmed
In the last case,
the car was not challenged or asked
to emphasize that the respon-
sibility fos the loss of life, however it
occurred, the destruction of property
and other losses, rests entirely with
those who engineered: this revolt an’
who, at a time when the Empire is en-
@ gigantic struggle, invited
the assistance and co-operation of the
Germans.” 4
pga
i George has again gone to the
trent Swhtch implies, no doubt, that the
water
rear.
rT wagon has been relegated to the
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in cold blood ercaia oldtere ‘and Police.
Simultaneously they took posses-
sion of many important buildings, Most
rebels were not in any. uniform,
and by mixing with peaceful citizens
made it impossible for the troops to dis-
tinguish between friend and foe untit
fire was opene many cases troops
having passed along a
occuple
innocent citizens were shot. The strug-
gle was in many cases of “ house-to-
ho es conting
was
often extremely Puineult to distinguice
between those who were or'had, for
various reasons, chosen to remain on
the scene ow ne fighting instead of
arins the
cordon: othe number of such in-
tldente that had been brought to notice
was very Ineign t.
‘Once e the rebellion started the mem-
bers of the Dublin Metropolitan Police
—an unarmed uniformed force—had to
be withdrawn, or they would have been
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