Semi-weekly herald., 1916-05-08
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treason. Baron Reading will preside
at the trial
2 Unless Easement escapes the death
penalty on plea of insanity, he will
b9-hanged with sill<en rope, privi-
r lege that was formerly granted to
members of the nobility who had been
sentenced to death.
Carson and John Redmond have
made a joint plea to the government
FOR mercy for the members of the
rank and file of the Irish rebellion.
and it is believed that a majority OF
them viii be lightly sentenced while "a
few will be deported.
A dispatch in the Evening News.
from Dublin, reported that in the
hospitals there there were bodies Of
1876 victims, including &c soldiers. The
morgues hold 800 bodies, some of
which it is impossible to identify.
DUBLIN, May St has been an
nounccd here that four more leaders
of the Irish rebellion have been exc
cuted in London.
They are said to have been Ed
ward DAILY, Michael O'Hannahan
William Pearse and Joseph Plunkett.
DUBLIN, May 5.-Seventeen more
leaders of the rebellion have been
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment,
and one to eight years.
PARIS, May At is officially an
nounced that the French troops last
night extended the consolidated gains
made yesterday at Dead Mans hill.
The French positions have been i'm
proved in the whole region of the
Meuse.
The German losses were heavy
yesterday.
The artillery is now backing up
the Belgian and British sections of
the line in Northern France, and last
night it destroyed the German works
at Granddune and blew up the mu-
nitions depot there.
BERLIN, May A. It has been of
ficially announced that the enemy
aeroplanes bombarded Ostend, with
out damage.
The report said one of the raiders
had been brought down.
The war office has admitted that
the French have gained a foothold
in the advanced German post on the
southwest slope of Dead Mans hill.
LONDON, May 5.-A German Yep
pclin was destroyed by a British
crsiser off Sehleswig yesterday, ac-
cording to an announcement made by
the admiralty.
A Zeppelin that attempted to raid
the allied camp at SalonilIa was de-
stroyed this morning.
PARIS, May 5.-The Germans have
made violent attacks on the French
positions north of Hill No. 304.
The attack was preceded by violent
artillery fire. The Germans succeed
ed in entering the advance trenches
in a few places, but We're repulsed
at all other points.
BERLIN, May 5.-The war office
has announced that the Germans have
occupied Salient, west of Avocourt,
after driving the French out by a
terrific artillery fire.
After destroying the position, the
Germans abandoned it.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May s.
The reply of Germany on the
submarine question began arriving
in sections at the state department to-
day.
Early sections caused a feeling that
Germany is beclouding the issue with
an avalanche of conditions.
There is an unmistakable feeling
in high official circles that break
with Germany is inevitable.
The American officials are greatly
amazed at the Germany's blunt re-
fusal to accept as conclusive the evi-
dence submitted in the Sussex case.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 5.-At
a cabinet meeting lasting two and a
half hours, the president and his ad-
visors considered the unofficial text
of the German reply.
At the end OF the meeting there
was no question but that the situation
was viewed with optimism.
No official announcement is ex-
pected until the president revises the
official text, which began arriving
in code today. 1t is coming slowly
and VIII require five hours to inter
pret it.
The cabinet members refused to
discuss the note, but it was Undated,
however, that there was strong hope
for a satisfactory settlement.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May g.
The full text of the German note has