Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-17

during the Easter rebellion of 1916
there was a futile rising there. A
score of men were taken rom Gall
way City and deported to English
jails and internment camps, including
DR.. Walsh, bursar of the Galway
branch of the National university,
where he holds two important medi-
cal professorships His experience
may be taken as a fair sample of the
treatment accorded to men against
whom no charge was ever preferred,
no evidence wos offered and to whom
no trial was ever accorded.
DIR. Walsh had been confined to his
house by illness for "a fortnight be-
fore the rebellion, in which he took
no part whatever, On Thursday OF
Easter week three autos filled with
fully armed police and soldiers took
him from his house, his wife being
critically i'll and insensib,e when he
was taken away. He was lodged in
a filthy police cell for the day and
night, then transferred to a British
cruiser in the bay with about twenty
others, where they were treated, he
told me, fairly well until being
shipped on a mine-sweeper to be
taken to Queenstown.
His description of the accommoda-
tions and treatment given to him and
his companions on this ship in their
voyage round the south coast on the
way TO Hoiyhead was revolving
Twelve of them were packed into a
room about twelve feet by three, the
door was locked, there was no venti-
Ia nj
the atmosphere became suffocating
Several men were sick and had no.
where to lie except on the floor; many
tainted from the horrible conditions
and lack of food, and they were
abused and threatened by the crew
DR.. Wash was taken up on deck
insensible by some of his companions
When he recovered he was ordered to
return to the BLACK Hole" He re-
fused to do so and was given the al
tentative of going there or being flung
into the sea. He was taken down, and
lay on the floor unconscious until
morning, when the mine-sweeper ar
rived at Queenstown.
In Solitary Confinement.
During this time the men had no
food or sustenance of any kind given
them. At Queenstown they were
transshipped to warship, where DR..
Walsh and one other were put in the
hold in solitary continents for three
days on bread and water. Then they
were transferred to little place
screened off by a sail with a hanging
table, with no room to exercise. nc
place to sleep except on the floor and
no covering except their own clothes
After three days more they were
again placed on the mine sweeper and
the conditions of the voyage from
Queenstown to Kinstown were worse
even than before-no sleeping accom-.
dations, no place even to sit down ex-
oept on the ground in iron cages. the
conditions Being made still more aw.
full bv the fact that they all got sick
On Saturday morning they were
landed at kin@stown, taken to the 20.
lice barrack lookup and left there
until o'clock in the afternoon, wher
they were taken in motor lorries tt
the Richmond barracks in Dublin
having been given nothing whatever
to eat the whole day. There they
were turned into room with no ac
coninodations, sanitary or otherwise
famished with hunger and weak from
their horrible experience on ship
board. They were given no food un
til next morning. when some tea. bull,
beef and dog biscuit were served out
which they ate ravenously.
They were kept in these indescrib
able conditions four days. withou
beds of any sort, no exercise, no wash
ing arrangements. no change O
clothes since they left Galway--in fac
they were treated more barbarousl,
than the worst type of convicted Grim
| inals.
| Next they were taken across t.
| Holyhead in a cattle boat. When the,
reached England their treatment i'm
proved-they were put in Jail ant
given the food, exercise and other ad
vantages of proved malefactors. Afte
three weeks in jail-where DR.. Walsl
was attacked by acute rheumatism
and had to be removed to hospital
they were taken to the internmen
camp at Frongoch in North Wales
which had been found not goo
enough for German prisoners.
| Oycrrun With Rats.
With large number of other
from other parts of Ireland they live,
in a disused MILL sleeping on planl
beds, which were overrun with rat
in the night, with such entirely in
| adequate sanitary accommodation
that finally the government. OWN,
TO parliamentary pressure, had to sem
| a sanitary expert to report on tn
place, who condemned 1t as unfit 70
| the purpose to which it was applied
| DR.. Walsh and the other "detenus
were "amnested" in the following De
cember---no charge having ever bee
communicated to them. no opportun
! ity given of proving their innocenc
because they were never brought t
trial. For four weeks after their ar
rest they were not allowed to com
municate with their relatives nor re
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