The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-04
Make House to House Search
for Sim Feiners.
Newspaper Plants of Dublin
Wrecked During Riot.
BIRRELL VOICES CONFESSION
Ousted Irish Secretary MiscaI.
culated Rebel Strength.
Starvation Threatened Ireland:
Flour a Dollar a Pound.

Dublin, May 4.-The round up of
rebels still at large is going on rap
idly and systematically. The Sim
Fem crusade was conducted so openly
that most of its adherents are known
to the police. House-to-house search
is being made for those not accounted
for and notices signed by Major Gen
eral Sir John Maxwell are posted ev-
erywhere4 warning any who harbor
rebels that they will be liable to arrest
and punishment.
| How serious the food situation be-
came at the height of the revolution
here may be judged from the fact that
butter sold at two dollars a pound,
flour at a dollar pound, and pota-
toes at sixty cents.
Since the beginning of the disturb
ance the city virtually has been cut
off from news of the outside world.
Nearly all supplies OF print paper We're
used by the rebels for barricades. The
premises of the Freeman's journal
land the Evening Telegraph were burn
ed to the ground while the offices of
the Daily Express and the Evening
Mail were badly damaged.
Protests to Executions.
| London, May 4.-The only protest
voiced in parliament yesterday against
the execution of the three leaders of
the Irish revolt came from Laurence
| Ginnell, member of the north division
of Westmeath, who is classed as ma
| tionalist but is actually an 1ndepen-
dent The three leaders, Patrick z.
| Pearse, Thomas ]. Clark and THOMAS
MacDonagh We're shot Wednesday
morning after trial by court martial.
John Redmond, leader of the Irish
parliamentary party, Joined with Sir
| Edward H. Carson, leader of the Irish
lunionists in a plea for leniency to-
ward the great mass of the reVolu-
tionists.
| In the remarkable speech explain
ing his resignation as chlef secretary
| of ireland, Augustine Birrell, confess
ed that he had miscalculated the
strength and seriousness OF the Sim
Fem movement. Mr.. BirreH paid a
tribute to the Irish race and said he
hoped good might come from the
grave events at Dublin.
BirreH Addresses Parliament.
.:Irish soldiers" he said, ARE still
the best representatives of their coun-
try, fighting as they are in all theaters
of the war -
Mr.. Birrel admitted he had been
urged by great many persons who
possibly knew Ireland better than. he
did that it was the duty of the gov
eminent to suppress the Sim Fem
movement wherever found ard conffs-
cate arms although up to the last mo-
ment no proof had been Forthcoming
| that thew were in hostile league with
the British enemy. He asked the
house however, to consider what the
circumstances might have been had
this step been taken
Justice Swift at Dublin.
Dublin. May 8 Wednesday,
tice has been swift in the case of the
IT..
Three of the ring leaders, SignerS OF
the proclamation of the short lived
Irish republic, paid the supreme sacri-
flee this morning. They we're Patrick
H. Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and
Thomas J. Clark. The sentences were
pronounced by the field general court
martial and were duly confirmed by
the highest authorities. OF the other
signatories. James Connolly is lying
in prison wounded, while Sean Mac
Diarnad, Eamonn Ceannt and Joseph
Plunkett are somewhere in Ireland
whether free or captured is not pub
| licly known.
The other ring leaders in custody in
Ireland now are being tried with great
rapidity by the central court martial
while the local courts martial are
dealing with minor rebels in various
districts. The Associated Press cor
: respondent saw a batch of the prison
ers leaving the courts after being sen
fenced. Some of them spoke to the
members of their escort as they
appearance was forced they evidently
had escaped with more lenient pun
ishmeat than they had expected.
News OF Execution Suppressed.
The general public was not aware O.
the execution of the ring leaders unit
late this evening and it was not posi-
BILE to observe the effect of their pun
ishnent upon the citizens of Dublin
who however, for the vastly greater
part were not in sympathy with tn.
rebellion.
Further captures of isolated sniper,
occurred today in the outlying quar-
tiers of the capital and orders wert
issued by Major General Sir Johr
Maxwell that any rebels found will
arms should be severely dealt with
Very few shots have been heard il
= the city since Tuesday evening at
. o'clock when a government boat pass
Z ing down the Liffey river was fire.
upon and sharp salvos from machin,
2 guns in the vicinity caused people il
the neighborhood to be alarmed.
Everybody is asking what has be
a come of John MCNEIL, the local or
ganizer of the Sim Feiners, who ap
pears to have disappeared from Dublil
| with the firing of the first shot. An
other man in whose fate great interes
is manifested is Theodore O'Reilly.
!, is now reported that his body wa
a found among the debris of the genera
4 postoffice.
Requisition Food Supplies. 81,
Confidence is rapidly RETURNING
among the civilian population and al
. though work has not been generalI
resumed many stores have been re
opened. The government requisitione,
all the food supplies in stock on its ar
rival at the quays and ample food wa
furnished to the poorer people
The south and west of Ireland a
Is present are the only places where dis
i turbances are rife and these are bein
20 sharply suppressed Some further cas-
ualties are reported among the troops
Though the young soldiers are per
r forming their duty under the severes
conditions of warfare, many of ther
L | having had only a few months train