Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1916 — WORE TROOPS SENT TO QUELL REVOLT [ARTICLE]

WORE TROOPS SENT TO QUELL REVOLT

Martial Law Is Proclaimed Throughout Ireland. ’‘SITUATION SERIOUS,’ ASQUITH Desperate Fighting in the Streets of Dublin —Genera! Sir John Maxwell on. Way to Stamp Out Rebellion. London, April 28. —Premier Asquith admitted in the house of commons that the Irish re'tolt has spread beyond Dublin. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout Ireland. “The situation in Ireland is still serious,’’ announced the premier. “The revolutionary movement' is spreading, especially in the west. The British troops in Ireland are being re-en-forced adequately to deal with the movement.” ' Fighting in the Streets. A military censorship is necessary, In view of the seriousness of the situation, the premier said. Behind that censorship desperate street fighting continues in Dublin, he admitted. “The rebels are still in the possession of important public buildings,” ■declared Mr. Asquith. “There will he a full inquiry to place the responsibility of the movement.” Gen. Sir John Maxwell, former commander in Egypt, has been sent to Ireland with a large force of troops from Wales. He is under orders to stamp out the rebellion without mercy, latest reports place the casualties to date at more than 200, but it is feared here that the list will number thousands when the troops; meet*the rebels outside Dublin,

Parliament Is Astounded. The prime minister’s statement came as a thunderbolt in the midst of a session of commons primed to receive the expected announcementthat the revolt had been completely crushed. All previous unofficial advices had indicated that the rebellion had collapsed and public attention had turned to disposition of the case of Sir Roger Casement. It is now urged by some papers that he be shown leniency. The referred to by Asquith includes jj£e prosperous comities of Limerick, Tipperary, Clare and Connaught. The fighting qualities of these Irishmen are only too well known, ■No one dares predict the outcome. The one optimistic phase of the day’s news, was the statements in parliament by Sir Edward Carson and John ..Redmond, Ulster and Nationalist leaders, denouncing the rebellion and denying that it represented the ma jority of Irishmen. A Riots Are Being Quelled. Drogheda, Ireland, April 28.—The disturbances in Dublin are being quelled effectively. Only in isolated places is there any disorder. All is quiet here and in the surrounding districts. No Dublin newspapers have arrived here since Monday. Drogheda is 26 miles north of Dublin.

The government, the prime minister further announced, was convinced that the forces now in Ireland and those proceeding there were adequate to deal with the situation. Party Enemies Agree. John Redmond, leader of the Irish Nationalist party, and Sir Edward Carson, the Unionist leader, strong opponents on the home-rule question, expressed their detestation of the rising, and as a consequence Premier Asquith said he did not think it necessary to hold a session of the house Monday, as had beer, suggested by one of the members, "to make clear to the world what true amount of support was behind the movement.” Demand Officials Resign. Demands were made for the resigna tion of Augustine Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland; Baron Wimborne, the lord lieutenant, and other officials alleged to be responsible in disregarding warnings as to what was likely to happen from the Sinn Fein agitation. Sir Edward Carson offered to place his Ulster volunteers at the disposition of the government to help in sup pressing the rebellion.

Disclose Plot in U. S. Here in London, where Sir Roger Casement, his fellow conspirators and the 22 German members of the crew of the scuttled steamer that sank ofl the Kerry coast with a full cargo ol arms, are imprisoned, it is said that the authorities are in possession of pa pers that show a widespread plot in the United States as well as Ireland and Germany. From statements volunteered, as well as from remarks of prisoners, it seems that Casement’s plots were laid ■with extraordinary minuteness in the United States, the details having been arranged by Irish rebel organizations in both Ireland and America. Germany had promised munitions in abundance It is said that the government has full , lists of names of those in both Ireland and America responsible for the con ■piracy.