The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-02
REBEL FLAG STILL
FLIES IN DUBLIN
Parts of IreIand'S Capital Are
Prey to Flames
STREET FIGHTING CONTINUES
AND LOOTING GENERAL.
Rioters Keep Up Shots From Barri-
cades. One Hundred Killed in
Dublin.

LONDON-Parts of the city of Dub
lin are in flames. Street fighting con-
tinues and there is much lOOting, it is
said, but the reinforced militia is max
ing steady progress. Most of the shops
are closed and passenger communica-
ton is still cut off.
Fifteen hundred or so armed men
of the Sim Fein had a hold on Ire
lands capital today. After four hours
of fighting their rebel flag still flew
from a number of central points.
Since Monday some of the chief posi-
lions in the city have been in the
hands of the rebels In defending these
strongholds against regular troops
and Irish nationalist volunteers, the
rebels are fighting with desperation
for their lives, which they know may
be forfeited on account of treason.
Regulars now command all the rebel
positions, the fall Of which is merely
question of time.
The streets Of Dublin were deserted
today, except for sentries and mill
tary guards. Business was at a stand
still Civilians peeped anXiously from
behind curtained windows. Field
guns were barking, machine guns rat
Ting and rifle fire was pattering, APP
parently from every quarter at the
same time.
when the Associated Press cor
respondent landed early this morning
at the quay near the customs house
the singing of bullets of rifles OF
snipers in the vicinity was frequent.
Augustine Birrell, the secretary for
ireland, had made the passage from
England with the newspaper men. As
he stepped ashore he shouted cheerily:
Il wish you luck, gentlemen. l don't
know what will happen to you now
that you are here"
Soldiers and rebels fired at each
other from street corners, wharves,
roofs and windows. Sentries with fix
ed bayonets on loaded rifles, station
ed every few yards, shouted their COM
mands to halt Naval guns joined in
and added to the deafening gunfire.
From the quay the respective posi-
lions could be seen. The rebels were
holding a square section of territory
from the point where Liberty hall
stood before a gunboat destroyed it,
as far as Cackville street, to ST. Ste
phen's Green and the Four Courts dis
trict and along the southern side of
the river to the Butt and O'Connel
bridges. They also held isolated pO-
sitiOns in a flour mill and a disused
distillery opposite the North Wall
station.
Over all this section there was a
considerable fighting the whole day
The distillery was the scene of one of
the sharpest little battles of the up
rising. The rebels were forced out of
the flour mill by bombardment and
many of them were seen covered with
flour making their way to the distil-
lery. Once there they hoisted the rebel
flag, which flOated from the corner of
square tower.
Soon a naval gun opened fire. The
first shot hit the tower and then half
dozen in succession struck the roof
around it. The flag still flew and the
rebels replied with rifles and machine
guns.
The bOmbardment ceased after a
dozen shots, but was renewed later.
Hit after hit was scored, but the flag
remained hanging from its pole One
shot hit a watertank just below it and
for a time there was a miniature cas-
cade down the walls of the distillery
W ANA AA6nl ACll anu all llIluR GA-
cept with rifles ceased the flag was
still flying defiantly over the side of
the little tower.
Upwards of one hundred persons
have been killed or injured in Dub
lin, a correspondent at Belfest Of the
Evening News reports in a dispatch
filed last night He says the rioters,
hidden in houses commanding import
ant street functions or covered by
barricades in the streets, are keeping
up constant fusillade
The list of casualties includes many
civilians, who, the correspondent says.
have been picked off by Sim Fein
snipers for no other reason than they
were believed to be loyal.
The Gordon of troops is being drawn
gradually but surely around the rebel
strongholds. The authorities are maxi
ing every effort to avoid unnecessary
blood and damage
Although the story of the early
hours of the Dublin uprising has now
been disclosed in considerable detail
England is still without authentic in
formation as to the progress Of later
events. Normal telegraph, telephone
and mail services with Ireland have
not been restored and the existing
means of communication are subject
to such strict censorship that it is pos
sible to obtain only fragmentary in
formation. Such news dispatches as
came through this morning added lit
tie to the information contained in
last nights official advices and stor-
les of witnesses.
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