The British troops attack the post office with machine guns. Mollser is ill with tuberculosis. Nora and Fluther hear the shooting and artillery. Nora runs to the lines and calls them cowards for being afraid to be afraid. She sees prisoners walk past.
People break into shops and loot.
Bessie and Maggie take a baby carriage to gather loot. Jack and two others volunteer to go to their other position. The rebellion is crushed, but snipers still fight. A sniper raps on a roof window to no avail and is killed. Jack kills a soldier and is let in from the roof.