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Vol. xlv., No. 32 ‘Whole No. 6
TRUE STORY V OF. THE
o
97.
GALWAY‘ lNSllRRECTl0N
Volunteer oificer Who Took An Aciil'e“l‘drl In The Fighting Writes A Graphic
Account of What Actually Took Place-Tile Conterniand of The Easter
Sunday 'l’ai'ddes Upset All The Well Laid Plans, Credlctl Confusion And
Uncertainty Aliil Eliminated The Element 0f Surpiisewlolice‘ ‘
Barracks Were Attacked With ln.llllellndte’Arnis, Alter The
Peelers llild Been Warned Anil Concentrated-lnsnrg .
ents lllade Brave And Sllilful Fight-Ailer llold- '
ing Six llundred Square Miles for A Week, K
. They Dispersed in Face Of A Strong
: Force 0i llritislliroolis. i
1‘ GAILIC Auzslcsw is hills to Pre-
sent to its readers this,week the story
or the Rebellion in Galwny. Written by
I man who wok nn srtive pnrt In it and
whose numli, for obvious reasons. is not
The newspaper and co ed re.
ports at the tims‘ot the Rehelllon were
run es rors Amon them
or the British cruiser
was the great test
which --have wa rrorn capturs
1,200 Re is who were
hut nobody was l:l
renorts were sent o
havoc wrought unan
The object of this waste 0 nln
coursa, to strike ter-
nzunltlo WIS. nl
ror into the people, but it had no such
silent, ‘ '
ths writer has no llnrd bottle
. tli les rides
the insurgents were able to hold son
or Galwsy tor n
ed with artillery and mar
chine guns,’ l - - -, :
. inn GALWAY REB-ELLION. ,
‘ an a Volmticsr amber. '
‘ Thu Risin
sslune anythl
proportions it. would ensllrhave done
had the rebellion slnried, ss was arisin-
Rll! intended, on Easter Sunday sVen<
ins. . ,
- The capture -oi the ship eon on the
E:
s
l-endy to shoulder every one of the 8.000
rides. Isl well as the riiles thnt would
hsve been captured from the not a
mandins ' s undny night’;
mobllisauoh rssulted in great numbers
as bat cortcnsd-goo
so who were prepared to do on.
B
:-
uld can:
, teen. At lesst. 1.000 men and hundreds
' in County
other lmrls oi
Saturday, and same
ass that the present time is incoher-
‘tuna to disclose 2 cm. uincs i
that mt’! wars
months ahend, every detail that would
ensure success and covordinntion being
c ment o surp so
hsput
the West that “Dulllln wss gains on
the police were alive to the situation
I'.ld were on the Ilert. ‘ Their first act
was to abandon rienrly all the smaller 0
wnllnded-evidently by the exi-lloslan ul ile nit
concentrate themselves
nllinusloa. .
irlt mnniiesteil by the Volun-
“Y“- answercd his cat
M
in the West or lrelnnrllss i
in the other parts where the volunteers
rose, did not a n like t
Gnlwlalv ls brl
to and the t cl
days ourlier. Yet nothing lenk- sle
outl . e
As to the proitmed nlnns. it is obvi-
way, Athenry. Gort, th
notion, slid the order postponing the
Rising only reached several corps as
they were on
Flrt assigned .
GALWAY mm TUIZN our.
zgv
the)’
stsndl
most
80 D
that the men were
excepting shot-
eftact ’were
decided to
rig the isct
arms,
s to
am
was in nlmsnd. ,He s d
Llcutennnt Blythe, the two chler orgun-
in s Volunteers, en
:-
8
3
st he previous lvisrch, and
night before the Rising rorcibly deport-
ed to England. commandant lviellows
succeeded in mslring his escape and
rived back in the west in time tor the
Risln . v
The llrst not of the Volunteers ms to
r 1'0
ng outside a house, t
rounded by a large body or police, who
held them up with their csrhloes. Lien-
tonant Falzy was centurod nnd hand-
Lieiltensnt rally
to Lime ck
' At 7 A. M, Tuesday. the clnrin-
bridge nndlKllIeeneen corps ocouplc
the village or clsrinbrldge nod ates
ed ths police, who ruled on the deten-
aivo in their horrachs. An ntlem
rush the place railed, Ind nri
o h slderwent on
5?-e
eti. Vho volunteered for
4: windows
1
9
been
thrown up st each end or the village and
several One
ick enough
ved the contents or
n s o the me who puh
housos,<ssloons) wcro shut and horses
snd vehicles commandeered. A cou
or motor-cur
red. .
THE nour Ar oRA‘!l'.iIORE.
he little town ot Orsn.
more, three - miles north oi cls
dge, had pooh occupied by the vol-
nuteers rrom oronmor and nurse
The bsrrsck hers was strongly
detondcd hy the 1' R he
'6‘
E
m
E.
n
o
1
n
E
n sovernl places.
csnlnred here:
clothes" man, went out or his mind the
hem day. probably with rear.
At 4 P , the volunteers rrom clar-
lnhridgs arrived at or nmore
were all mounted on vohlclesior some
description. inane
march on ,,
Glsrinbridgo Bhrrlclm. only i'our ourne
ut t on were sil badly
e um s. As in Cllrlnbridge, the
public houses were shut by the Volun-
teers. Ind llo rink Wu Allowed to be
their way to carry out the 0
t em
to outoido
rs, wo d
tier holiownes
d 1-gig evident to nil present who were
' “Inlernstionai
t
' about Gei'Inn.ns'!"
9. Ind one l‘El0LOl"VIl‘l were Am
s- try
not. these lhs set
it "WeIl-er-
ll. Howard Wllitellouss, an Eng-
lish Melnllar of Parliament, Al-
lowed to Prostitute the Public
School Lecture Forllln in All-
. Bad Quarter of. an Hour in
Brno yn. ' I
1n‘the Civil: Forum held in Public
School Na. 84, Glennmrs and stone Ave-
dominllllan. which, or courss,
msinly in arlca's interest, though
lnoldcntly ths downtrodden Ind libe
denied 0 1:
or
ul slso
llam-
n arlsrn no mention N
would he brought to its ‘knees snd all
would
the dotnlls or whic
worked out snd. were sucessslully oner-
sting through ths errorts oi the corn
(Grent Cecil) Rhodes’ lnternatlonnl
scholarships. And on this, too, new
wiuutandlh d
ve ever had
gave her a sound drubbing. neatly it
was s very interesting tsllr, t its
a and hypocrisy were
even
is current world nt-
alishtli informed o
fail‘: and past English hlstnri.
arr
The audience. Judging
ho were
or ,
. in: something of educational value and
who at nrst could hnv
caption of the purpose to cloud their
minds and gently lead them to swept
the llrolsrltlsh sentiment. , -
led. it one
. The who
covered by I younrymon on the why out
who said: The music was good, but
that rcliow was bunk." ' ‘.
Rhodes scholurships as on aid
E cation," the no
version, or course. was the is
. in
l1
s
rmsns-wss ii nthsr
could Ivnil themselves of these scholar
Well the speaker didn't Iluiie
but he snvllased so, same as Cnnv
ads and he Cnlnnies, sud: "
(this from the Ger-
5 H75.
lrnow.
nn. - .
"Well. I-oh-t suplnosa so."
,‘-‘Well. are there only at them there
no 1" -
‘Well, you see-eh-the wsr broktl
out during the university vscnllon a d
-hers is young Brownsville fellow in-
ierjeclsd: "they're .sil i in
(Grant isuizhtsr). The German's
a a car. .
Mr, Thomas P. ‘ruins, ans or the P
trlotic instructors or the G
now,
point
them Ind. corldle them to s point where
they urns lmsida down
llsushler) from an Ameriran lo 1 full
- Ohfordlan Englishman, I iihrvertmmerr
English ideas throughout our educa-
e- tlonal institutions, and other rcceptlvo
cultursl sounds!
"well,-eh-I wouldn't take such n
arrow vlow o it ss that."
<;runlod.",snld li‘lr,‘Tnite, “but nre
,..
hut no definite re
svonse. ‘
- other questions, such as "How murh
money did Cecil Rhodes set aside ior
lie expenses ot this pro-English, shti-
American rsnllrslgn?" "How long in
taught and subsidized? 'li:ll. in
annual allotment to each stndnnll"
, African Republics and Ireland, by En
fl And then
tha' lll.l>.'s retl-est
n all,
that England is to lay oil 2 Amerl
. wnglng against us the greatest commer-
Er
to
NEW YORK, JANUARY 20, 1917.
cover them up, us the lcngllshmau usu-
nlly does. But in this no railed, as Mr.
Tlitte snswered'tho questions himsclt
tor the benerlt at any in the audience
to whdm the roots might not lisve been
(nnllilnr. ‘
Here the chairman very cleverly
some to the rescue ot the ilounderlns
R. and runner questioning r,
'l-uitc was shut oli "it: give others I
Rrl(‘el"
Z
o
:r
my questions zlir. 1-uita got
the door ior "Just one more question.
and tl.’iB Inst one." ““'ill your Educl-
tlonal lnternntionaiism take up titer
er other csses (hall
that or Belgium? such as tho persecuv
tion of the Jews, the I-‘inns, the Pu
the Lithuanlnos, and other oppressed
lleollles ll ' 0!
Egypt and Glhroliar; the suhiusstioo
and hulding dawn oi inllh. the Smith
9
o
s
"5
land. and the present raping pt Greet-e
y the zhtcrrtc Alliesz" .
--w - i know, you
suh act is so large, ll. would
require sevcral lectures to snswer yoli,
-ere-you go hoclr so tar into
htstor‘ v
..N
into ancient history, l rcrcr entirely to
conditions and abuses.
a Will you answer?”
ell-or-o ursc. oi tourse, you
will have the last Vl'0l"d4-Eli."
lgsin the Chairman
cleverly to the rescue or the l. ,
m f cullrtesy 19 00731‘
and he did it
china
5
:l:
re
The lmnlldente of this Englishman Bust
coming hero to touch his sntl-National
ilmerlcsnlsm is only excelled by
ignorance or his subject, or. the working
can mind, and their knowl-
edge or Englnnd’s enmity to us. -l-lc is
In sionnrv on George l-tsven
if tlcorgs t o
old to go‘across the soar to serve on
tho British General start, as stated by
him eli - V n
s .
unquestionably there are those in our
cuuntry who wish to emhrnil ill in the
grout world war on the side or England.
in llsck her in her erullnds or i. e
spoils. it successful, or to save her in
nhle- c colly Assured-
ism at all poi lli
ot,hol-se. o e to the trenches, in-
stead ot.hold ng s soil.
slaolrer in this country. it, however, he
Americans to on
can
his single plscejn the trenches, w
sir: i don‘: can roll to go hock -in
very
tr
n by the men at lrelsrld
BOSTQN MEN INDIGNANT.
Meeting of Friends of Irish Free-
rlolll Pellounce and Take Active
Metlsurca to Prevent .Exlllbi-
. tion of the Moving Picture Ell-
titleil “Wlloin the Gods Der
dtroy" Which So Foully Mill-
representa the Easter Week
ebollloll.
laosrox, iliAss.. Jan. lo.-'rhs' irish
people ot tlosldn are u in arms against
leg, the possibility or having exhibited in
2
city the movl tllm
“ivhorn tho (lotls h in
such s dlrert and intentional slsnllrr
the men who gave their lives tor
ll-cland in tho rmut Ennlier Weril Re-
bclllon.
on reading or the pivturs and
an insult it was to t o tr
0
a
suit at
ca,
eedu of B0 on In: csiled and held
in Snrsfleld Hull. Dlldley tmet, on
ry 7 everal of tllulie present
been to new York saw
at the irish Volunteers. proposed
tlon that secretary u y be instrui-tori
to uotiiy llisynr Cnriey, Chief Justice
r or tho lltunicipal Bench n
omrnlssloner 0'Mcsra, the then-
oaian
theatre in nrrier to prevent disturbances
that are oillern‘ a sure to result
The ro llilltlnn was amended to in-
rlnds the issue or a warning and a nil .
lrlnh societies,
ror 1‘00l7(‘YH1lDn
in thc clan-naaael, the H
tilllltng
s comm tee to visit the! proprietors or
the theatres believed to be ready
show tile him, and to explain to them
that the ilradllctlon is-
lnatcrul to tho iris
“s libel on the living. hlltgdrnwlng the
slime or slander screen the graves cl’
Ireland's martyred ."
"There are many or
ion who uoulil xladl)’
lives to have
us here in
have
shared in the glory won
in Easter Week."
“circumstances rohhed us or
you, men or l.-lvh
to it plain that it
glory 0! those men, we can and we V
pm-rot thc t-llr British and their loul
agents in this country irorn slander-
(vorriinrlrd ml Pane 2,)
ENGLAND’S “clElllllci‘7scollllllll IN flllmlio
Release of Men Held for Eight Months in English Prisons With-
out Trial, Many of Whom Had No Connection With any
Irish Organization and Took No Part in the Easter Week
Rebellion, Has Not Goncilidtell the People or Made Them
Leas Determined to Put an End to English Rule-The Popu-
lnilonfaoes Starvation, Although Ample Food Has Been
Produced-Colonial Premiers Cdlledto Recommend the Gov-
erllmeni’s Fake Hanna Rule
' Not Succeed.
nlrnmn. Jen. i.--rho reiesse of the
irish prisoners, -who
without trial in Frongorll nnd 001
English prisons, has not in tho iesst
ollnyed tho intense nntl-lcngllah reeling
in this country. The large number or
men sentenced to long terms or impris-
onment Y courtmulrtlsl ave not hsen 13
released nor is share an)’
Prospect 0!
s re-opening or their cases, ur o re-
trlsls heiors s civil triou
mil.
n are bitter against
lion nnd did not belong to Any irish or-
in an. In its Bluiildlly the Gov-
ernment has made gond Nationalists of
n 0
Er.
y for the remainder
thair lives to overthrow British dornlnsv
ii in in lreln d
o n .
5 THE aovnirxllaxr tuscALovL‘Ar-
ED nanny.
Lille ever)’ not of England this release
Th
tours on Easter sundry Ius shlendid.
try man Wls in his place ready ror
l
toonianosd’ on root 7,)
. . l
nt 0 lie purposcs
was srrlazlnxly Ell i’
in who Ituvldly trying to
Ind full. or
or the irish ll sollerl was not nromnt.
ed by generosity or justice. This latest
1'1‘ downfall of Englan ,
Settlemen “ ‘ the Farce Will,
"clcmcncy‘-" Is it hss been termed by
the English press. was prompted entire-
l by imperial intorcs . eir
blindness English Ministers hoped that
this poltry e - ncy"
would win the sfiectlons or ths Irish
people and (tilt 2oo,ooll lrlsllmen would
rush to the deiehsa or the British Em-
e
The hypocrisy or the Government is
thoroughly understand in this rouhiry
ill people are long mcrporics
’ England. Their recital r this had on to ipllmlrrpls tho per, 5]]
treatment. indignities I1 the lletty or “psrtisi v-leniency" will not enthuse
spits or the Eu llsh prison oillclals tholrlsh pen ha v‘vnr or Droplu.
have fired ths minds oi the people snd ate them tor centuries oi injustice,
til tho old snimosltles hn e got u ne pouaugn “.1 gr. Ev", rgleugg
lenses of lire. Everybody outside Gov- mgr,,,,,,,, has me .n pog[]9 no
ernmcnt circles is aware that numbers 1 sh irccrloru snd irorn elery trls
or those who h been detained in
an
it that iervont prayer will at last no
Srlnted.
Everybody in lrelnnd outside or the
Juli-holders and the Jim-seekers is
ugalust llle lloverllnlenh and this stll>
tude cannot ho a ered by trclundh R
r-rlliter-in-Chief. John Redmond, or
the Inilenl or his brother, lllslor Will-
lsm H. ‘K. Redmond. Recruiting is as
dcsd as Queen Anne and nothing that
ran he done hy roreign trlclrscers or
natlvu traitors will in uc lriohmon.
whether they belong to the North or the
I j.
(Cnviilmiel on Pdvu 6.)
nntoooa so h-oevul.elss. nntuf.0cv. l, me, I! the
.w Xi-rii.N. ....o: it
SPIRTTI 0F IRISH PEOPLE RElllAIliS UNBROKEN
1
nos P "
given our ,1
hyw
xwgw. ,
xi
9,
‘y
1,. undor to. mod cons net: I. ma
root more at
PRICE FIVE C
jam
irish Priest, lngl Letter To his Brother in America, Giles All Outline Ill Condiiionsl
in Ireland Since The iltllellion-Sills Thai Resistance To law As Adminis-
tered Tliere is A lllliy‘-Describes The Men Who Took i’ari‘lu The
Easter Week lielltllion As A Knightly Add Clili-llll'0lIS lland Wlioso
Conduct Evoked Yraise Even from Their Enemies-Belief
in The Justice 0i Their‘
Cause And Their Sublime
Faith In God Sustained Them Throughout-lnh
prisolleil lllcn ii iii Not Consent To Betrayal
Oi Ireland-The llghl for lilliional
Independence Will Go On.
in ‘run Grlsrro AMrlll4‘A‘< at October
2i ihcrs lllpenred e ielii-r irom s pa-
rriotlo priest in Dublin to a brother ot
his America. who, h"L‘liuie or ii
hnving lost touch with irish ollalrs was
nd against the
E
to
The letter Tn! I l'nslz1lil‘l<‘e1it tribute
it had a ‘V
tremendous enact l mu g s gre t
rnnny people lens llillll that time
shtagoh tic em. Ree the slvshllltr
:'
2
2
:
L5
S
a.
in rsngitls them solidi)‘ on tho aids
those who ltlvocste the prlnriilles ot the
a
men at Easter Week,
Though this palrlolir priest wcs will. "
Blill'Rll'Ili ill a
n rs air’ rovlnon smervzyot
log to have his name used and to take.
whatever consequences
out to him by the mill-
ry pumps in in, it was, tor
obvious rensons, withheld.
As is w it known. it is ‘almost impos-
sihla‘lo get uny news irom ireln now
that rerlecls the real sentiments oi’ the
lleopl but '1' . Annucsrv has
again been ioriunste in rccclvin
3 he said.
lrilght he meted
5 In-
shirlt that,
and or has determination or the people
to carry oh the light to a triumphant
issue.
““ PRIESPSLETTERITO HIS BROTHER “ W
- could not have shared the late and the
‘ Dublin.
hly near Brother: ‘
i hope you received my last letter. To
get it away was hy no means on e
ltlstler, owing t rircumstnnccs over
which l have no control, but or which
tho nrltish censor llus.
Nothing of very great irnporloms has
since hnppcncd to lnry ills nlozloinny
or the martial lawn‘ undcr wh
iillifer. may or deported prlsouars
hevs heon rolcased, lmt thoro
large llllmller in Fr
rs
n
-<
p
y. snd
o
rwrul accounts of starvation snd brutal-
alien. an;
more huo n
and hopeful thun ever. Here is I let-
Ur ecelvcd iro one a her.
As ii. hrezitlzes the spirit aninmting ih
whole bod ink won i give it
sor sol
reigning
f'DelIr Father .
" t present we nre all well, Ind in
good spirits, though longing tor the
down or the ayt at will see no liber-
ated in s tree nnd re-geurrsted treiand.
when t at comes, as i too at
some,
edss that God hloasrd uld uph
light to us llil, Ind to g genera-
L10
5 elrly stages of our confine
(-ment, ieers. insult. ill-treatment.
eren wretched and insu cierit coil and
bed-r-lolllilis. Ill woo srhployeo with ti-
o endlsh impunity. e I say
what sustained -use in-aye
Father. xow t st times sro easier, and
s can converse treely. the men w ll.
out exception, agree that it was fervent
nnyer alone tint enubled ll! in endure to
such to tilt er lh
taunts. and (cw. it any. urn littered an
A ,
o
u
:-
evenillss n w when Irs Ira
r “'9Bl( llnrl illi: prlnrlnlts I8
Ior whirl: they so hobly olrcred their
" liven. ‘
so rrloascd give “"5 9
no chanrc or either pssslng or W
"klllitsiord sarrsrlsfcheshire. 1
we shall on rejoice in the knowl- 1”
l h o
All Issemhlsri in ihe large yard we r
til! lha Ros!!! i.OKElh!l’, and even our
i i -.
lsilors. reepir-l-ident in khaki, or-s out-g.
ourly impressed hyxhs rcrvor or ths
some or them tough at us.
Thus we hope to maintain that spirit ‘
or piety and trust in God to
disilosed to believe ills stories so sodul- a o a
men. tllnuxn
we on
I srlush court.
WILL 2CL‘VER CONSENT To
BETRAYAL.
“As regards the settlement o
o
now-witch the question
settled hi! the 5:." ‘
in
earn the undying gratt
exile
“I ‘am. dear I-‘alliier, it
' “Yours VET)’ T9599
.. :
FATAL CHli.VTElr.VA)'DI.VG‘
r
conntermnndlng
oil was little; it anything,
lonoilo,
i oulmand
Alsoxeill-nloiored
of !il'll(lDK
honor nnd chivalry
ea
outing to Plot
The D'Riihllly. in nlledlenz-e.io it
h s er-lnriXu'el'
lhor, the soul or
ENTS.
short
the
3-ms-0
Messengers were hurriedly sent to'nll
parts or rho country ior
nose, ond the iollowing nollro.
hy Prnlexsor llaoxciil, appcllre
om:
“Owing to the very rrlticnl
nil orders given to irish volun
other mot-cmehis ui’
V
silmed
il In the
iloslllon
lcvrs (at
Easter snuvlnr. ova herelry
and no mrsrles, msrr-hes or
Irish Vol
llntm-is
will i Each individual volun-
leer will obcy this order strictly in
every pnriirui s ‘
W L’ l‘OIil’]N.
LD HAVE DISARJIEII
- TEENS.
recinllstcd
s
'rursda.v4-erlslnly vrllhln that week.
the insurrection
wso undouhzedly the danger of disarm.
E: tar
xx,
To iiuirlly submit would be ronairlorcd
In eternal dlsrnra h
in any conhitt with
the NI-
lheir sldo
tlonullsl torccs. The Police tleugd lg,
(continues on page 3.)
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