The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-10
RIG0RS OF THE
Martial Law
Employees Discharged, Suspected
of Being Sim Feins.

have discharged all employees suspect
ed of membership in the Sim Fein, the
Gaelic League or the Irish Volunteers.
The Thomas Upton chain of tea stores
have done likewise. The shipping
companies have taken the same stand.
Gen. Sir John Maxwell issued an
order forbidding all professions, polit-
ical meetings, printing, or athletic
games or other sports without the
written permission of the military
authorities.
There is scarcity of sugar and
tea in Dublin where the prices of
these commodities are almost prohibit
tive. Half starved children in rags
are driven from the streets by the
police.
Dublin May 19-Orders have been
issued to arrest all persons having in
their possession the flags of the Irish
Republic. The printing presses and
Newspaper Offices of the rebels are
being destroyed. Several printing
plants were located in cellars. The
editors of Ireland, Sim Fein, Sketch,
The Irish Volunteer are in prison and
the editor of the Dublin Leader has
been executed. Bundles of revolution
airy proclamations have been seized
and burned. County councils continue
to pass resolutions demanding a
change in government The Listowel
Irish Volunteers have surrendered their
arms smashing them in the mrket
place. An English regiment has
landed at Larne, near Belfast, bound
for the West coast to preserve order
The Board of Guardians raising money
for the poor of Dublin report a state
of the most frigitful distress. Arch
bishop Walsh of Dublin has consented
to act as an Honorary President of the
Irish Relief Fund Committee in the
United States. Ireland is still under
martial law, civil law suspended. The
estimated damage to Dublin property
by the week of revolution is estimated
at $21,60O.O0. Compensation for loss
of property will be assessed and paid
for on fire insurance basis
Irish Press and News Servce)
Cork, Ireland. May Goth, 1916-The
Rev. Dr. Cohalan, Roman Catholic
Bishop of Cork. issued statement to.
day as the negotiator for the surren-
der of the arms of the Irish Volun-
teers in Cork. There was a revolution
scheduled for Cork County the same
night of the Dublin revolt This
county contains one-seventh of the
population of Ireland The Bishop
was appealed to by the Lord Mayor
and the military authorities to nego,
tfate the laying down of arms. The
statement, in part of the Bishop of
Cork follows and affords further proof
of the claim that the military officers
broke their plighted word to the reb-
els in Cork as we'll as in Dublin.
The Bishops statement follows:
"The military proposition was that
If the arms were given up to the Lord
Mayor or myself it would be suffi-
cient; the meeting was adjourned to
Friday night when the military propo-
sftion was to be submitted to the
heads Of the Volunteers. s. :" On
Monday, May LIST, | met the leaders of
the Volunteers. They were angry that
faith had been broken with them. BY
a large majority resolutions were
passed accepting the arrangement
agreed on with the military repre-.
'sentatives. Our military friend tele-
phoned his congratulations. ....
. On Tuesday, May End, notwithstand-
ing the guarantee of amnesty, eleven
of the Volunteers were arrested. On
Thursday. May 4th. the military
turned their attention to the country
districts
Many Volunteers were arrested and
lodged, some in the County Goal and
some in the military prison. The &C.
clesiastical arrangements in Cork in
relation to the barracks and prisons
are: There is no whole time military
chaplin, but one of the priests of the
parish attends to the military bar.
racks; while there is a special chap
lain for the military prison and spe-
cia1 chaplain for the County Goal.
The prisoners were lodged, some in
the County Goal and some in the mill
tary prison. But the chaplains were
refused access to the prisoners, and on
Sunday the prisoners were not allowed
to Mass, though Mass was said in the
prisons. Knowing that one of the
prisoners in the military prison was
in danger of the extreme sentence
wrote to the officer in command of the
barracks, and pointed out that the
chaplain should be allowed to see the
man; that the affairs of the conscience
should not be left over to the excited
moments following the announcement
of the death sentence: that the chap
lain should be allowed to see all pris-
oners. It was of no avail. Later on
the chaplain would be allowed to see
the prisoners on making the follow
ing declaration: 81 hereby declare,
upon my honor, that will convey no
information, message or document Of
orxy bind ond tho< will froot 90 oh.