The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29
Dublin Paralyzed by
 Rising of Sim Feiners
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running of trains to and from the country is very irregular
 l Yesterday (Monday) at midday the Sin Fein revolutionists were assembled l as if for one of their usual parades They were supposed to be going out | for an Easter Monday march. Some Of the rank and file even imagined this was their purpose. About 500 of them, 1 however took possession of the gen 1 eral postoffice in Sackville street,
 which at the time was attended by an unusual small holiday staff of clerks. There the 600 men remained all day and night and still hold forth. l Photographic and postal eommunica- I tion, in so far as it goes through this. the chief postoffice in Ireland, has l ceased
 1 The raid was beyond the power of the l police to deal with. Small attachments of lancers approached on the scene, but after two or three of their horses had | been shot and two or three of the men wounded they withdrew. Since then the Sinn Feners have been left alone and they have hoiSted the flag of the Irish republic over the building.
 Various corners in Sackville street has been occupied by Sim Feiners and bar | ricades of barbed wire erected in the thoroughfare.
 In this street there has been a great deal of footing of shops and smashing of windows.
 In St. Stephens Green a detachment of the Sim Feiners entered the Green which is surrounded by railing and locked themselves in and began digging trenches. The authorities considered that this move as last stand might be inrel- llglble, but as an outset of the disturb ance they could not guess its purpose The Countess Markiecz, the sister of an Irish baron, in volunteer uniform, was prominent figure in the disturbance She was one of the leading sympathizers With James Larkin in the 1913 street car riots and her house was raided in Jan- uary by the police who are said to have seized a printing press and type with Which alleged pro-German literature was being printed. Her husband is said to be a Polish nobleman.
 In addition to St. Stephens Green, vari- ous corner points covering the entrance to the green were also occupied by the Sim Feners, who flourished rifles from the windows of nearby houses Several passing motor cars and taxicabs were communicated. The occupants of these machines were taken inside the green apparently as hostages, and the cars were drawn up on the roadway as barricades. There has been much rifle and revolver firing, seemingly at nothing in particular and several persons out holiday making have been killed or injured. The wounded were removed to St. Vincents hospital, on one side of St. Stephens Green HOLIDAY MAKERS SUFFER In the Portobello road, over the canal which forms the boundary of the city, the Sim Feiners seized corner public house. Here also holiday makers suf- fered from promiscuous shooting. One platoon of the Royal Irish rifles suc- ceeded in dislodging and taking prison CTS these Sim Feiners.
 During Monday officers and men in khaki and also isolated individuals were shot at in the streets. Some of them are reported to have been killed or wounded.
 No evening newspapers appeared in Du- blin Monday and no morning papers were published today CTuesday). The Even- ing Mail office was occupied by members of the Sim Fein yesterday. They still retain their possession of the building.
 The military have established themselves opposite the Evening Mail office.
 The Royal College of Surgeons, which
 faces St. Stephens Green on the west,
 was seized by the Sim Feiners and their
 flag flown from it.
 Thus far the revolters have captured
 nothing by fighting. There was nobody
 to resist them and they simply occupied
 the buildings.
 lHc OI iSidlS arc VT lIe OpllllOu I0dL the
 trouble may last day or two. They say
 there is ample force at the disposal of
 the government to quell the entire dis
 turbance with ease. The sympathy of
 the people generally. they declare. is
 against the disturbers. but thus far the
 military authorities have not shown their
 strength. They are, no doubt, anxious
 to end the trouble with minimum of
 blood shed and destruction of property.
 It is impossible as vet to ascertain or
 even to approximate the number of per
 sons killed or injured but there is no 1
 doubt that the aggregate is considerable
 as the holiday crowds were large and the l
 shooting by the Sim Feiners was very
 wild and reckless.