Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-29
James Larkin Leading
Irish Uprising; Aided
by Uniformed Countess

Dublin. Tuesday, April 20 (By
Courier to Kingstown), via London,
April 2S-Dublin now has been held
up for twenty-four hours by a COM
bination of members of the Sim Fein
Society and followers OF James Larkin
head OF the Transport Workers Union
and we'll known as a strike leader
There has been the same violence
in the city as marked the big street
car strike in 1913, the Associated Press
eyewitness of the disorders declared.
This strike was headed by Larkin, but
supplemented by the use of an armed
force with military pretensions and
the seizure of strategic points designed
TO give the disturbance the aspect of
q revolution.
Gas Supply Cut of
The trouble has gone on now for
twenty-four hours and has completely
dislocated the life of Dublin. No
shops are open and no business is
being transacted. Street cars have
ceased to run and the gas supply has
been cut off.
Use of the telephone between the
city and the suburbs has been for
hidden by the military, and the run
ming of trains to and from the coun-
try is very irregular.
Monday, at midday, the Sim Fein
reVolutionists were assembled as if for
one of their usual parades. They were
supposed to be going out for an Eas-
ter Monday march. Some OF the rank
ana file even imagined that this was
their purpose.
About 600 of them, however. took
possession of the general post office in
Sacl,Ville street, which at the time was
attended by the usual small holiday
staff oil clerks. There the six hundred
men remained all day and night and
still hold forth.
Telegraph and postal communica-
tion, insofar, as it goes through this,
the chief post Office in Ireland, has
ceased
Hoist Irish Republic Flag
The raid was beyond the power of
the police 10 deal with. Small de-
tachmentS of Lancers appeared 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 Sim Feins in the post
Office have been left alone and they
have hoisted the flag of the Irish Re-
public over the building.
The Countess MarllievfcZ, the sister
of an Irish baron, in a volunteer uni
form, was a prominent figure in the
disturbance She was one of the lead
ing SympathiZers with James LarlIin
i'll, the 1913 street car riots and her
house was raided in January by the
police, who are said to have seized
a printing press and type with which
alleged pro-German literature was be-
ing printed Her husband is said to
be Polish nobleman.
Much Rifle Firing
There has been much rifle and re-
Volver firing, seemingly at nothing in
particular and several persons out
holiday y-making have been killed or
injured. The wounded were removed
to st. Nincent's Hospital, on one side
of st. Stephens Green.
In the Portobello road, over the
canal which forms the boundary of
the city, the Sim F'einers seized a
corner public house. Here also holi-
day makers suffered from promiscu-
ous shooting. One platoon of the
Royal Irish Rifles succeeded in dis
lodging and taking prisoner these
Sim Feiners.
During Monday officers and men in
khaki and also isolated individuals
We're shot at in the streets. Some of
them are reported TO have been killed
or wounded.
College of Surgeons Seized
The Royal College or Surgeons,
which faces st. Stephens Green on
the west, was seized by the Sim Fem
ers and their flag flown from it.
II is impossible as yet to ascertain
or even approximate the number OF
persons killed or injured, but there is
no doubt that the aggregation is con-
siderable. as the holiday crowds were
large and the shooting by the Sim
/ Feiners was very wild and reckless.