The Topeka state journal., 1916-05-11
DEBATE ON IRISH
Discussion of Question in Both
Houses Today.
May Bring an End to Execu-
tiOns and Arrests.
PROTESTS ON DEATH OF KENT
Deportation of Rebels Is Caus-
ing Much Concern.
Several Thousand Thought TO
Be in English Jails.

London, May 11.-Fourteen persons
have been executed in Ireland. Harold
]. Tenant, parliamentary under sec
retary for war told a questioner in the
house of commons today. Seventy
three persons have received sentences
of penal servitude and six of imprtson-
onment at hard labor, the under sec
retary added.
A number of lists containing 400 or
more names of persons arrested have
been published.
The latest estimates of casualties in
Dublin are about 1000 of which 400
were killed, including soldiers, insur-
gents and civilians.
Since the insurrection there has
been an increase in the rate of Dublin
recruiting. Even while the contro-
Versy over the causes and manner OF
handling the insurrection is still in
progress efforts are being made to
compromise the home rule question
Those who most desire this are urging
that Lord Hardinge, after he has
concluded his inquiry into the dis
turbanceS, shall be appointed lord
lieutenant of Ireland. Rumors in
parliamentary circles say negotiations
of some kind are being arranged and
that Sir Edward Carson and John
Redmond, leaders of the two parties
are concerned with them.
Stop Arrests and Executions.
London, May 11.-Irish affairs oc-
cupied today even a more important
position in the public mind than they
did at the time of the home rule con-
trCversy. Both houses of parliament
arc engaged with them today. John
DIllon's motion for discussion of exc
cutions in Ireland comes up in the
house and the house of lords is con-
sidering Lord Loreburn's motion ex-
pressing dissatisfaction with the Irish
administration. The debate in the
of iS
more important for there the govern
Inent comes under the cross-fire of
the whole Irish party and of large
number of Liberal members who are
determined to bring to an end not only
arrests and executions in Ireland but
martial law.
The execution of Thomas Kent. in
County Cork, although it took place
surances that no further sentences
would be carried out until the de-
bate was concluded, has brought forth
further protests from Irish parltamen-
tary circles. The Nationalists are also
concerned at the continued arrest and
deportation to England for confine--
uent in English jails of rebels from
all parts of the country. The number
of arrests has not yet been made
known but it must be several thou
sand.
Demand Death Inquiry.
Dublin May 1.-THE Freeman's
Journal calls for a public inquiry into
the death of F. Sheehy Skeffington,
editor of the Irish Citizen. and two
other men executed with him in the
Porto Bello barracks on April 26. 1t
was announced today that Skeffing-
toms body had been disinterred at the
barracks on Monday and removed to
the Glassnevin cemetery.
The following letter written by the
widow of F. Sheehy Skeffinston to a
friend was made public today:
my husband was arrested on April
25 when returning home on the sec
ond day of the rising, was tried
(charge unknown) and shot forthwith.
He was unarmed and a non-combat-
ant, being well known as an earnest
pacifiSt but also as an Irish nation
aIist''