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H Ar Armed U Uprising rising Fe Feared red f Fails i s t to Materialize ter i e But ut In Incendiary Fires i W ee t f Island and 0 DUBLi April r 5 The th threatened threat threat- ened Et Easter r revolt of othe f the then the Sinn n 1 Fein Een e n in Ireland developed ev ped into a rising with the for torch li instead instead in in- stead of the rifle Conflagrations were were reported from all p parts of Ireland today Total po police police po- po lice barracks burned and bombed stood at ninety-nine ninety at 2 p. p m mo Republicans attacked twenty-one twenty British revenue stations in Ireland Irelan burning the official records I CORDONS WITHDRAWN When it became apparent that the Sinn Shin would not attempt an armed uprising on a big scale the BritIsh British Brit Brit- ish military cordons around many of the cities in the south were J withdrawn Dublin was vas quiet this this' morning with British troops and the the constabulary a vigilant guard every every- where A A band of f armed m men n naU all aU disguised held up a a amail mail mall motor lory at Kilrush in County Glare Clare nd rifled the official pouches contain containing ng military dispatches ARRESTS MADE MADE More than jhan Sinn have liars been peen Jeen arr arrested ed In a n new w series of ot raids by police and ary An al and ominous movement wa was reported from west Ireland where J bands estimated ted at more than 1700 men marched through the country driving own owners owners rs off oft estates T Ten n grazing grazing graz graz- ing log tenants were were forced to leave one estate Officials at Dublin castle today estimated esti estl- mated the damage to property in the theE E Easter ster outbreak alc at at more than which they said the taxpayers rs would I be forced to pay A. A number of bridges were blown up I SINN FEIN FEtN FLAG FIES The Sinn Sinn Fein flag flag was still sun on the admiralty pier at t Queenstown today I Halyards had b been en cut and the flag- flag Conti Continued on page 2 I I I TORCH USED C Continued from o page a 1 pole greased to m make ke its removal difficult Reports continued to arrive de describing de scribing fresh outbreaks There was every Indication the raids were carefully carefully carefully care care- fully planned by 9 a central organization tion Officials at Dublin castle astle ad admitted admitted admitted ad- ad the raids had iad struck at the basis of of at governmental machinery Destruction of the ta tax records theY the said would make enforcement of the tax laws most difficult CONDITIONS AT BELFAST Today's report showed the outbreak outbreak out out- break probably was most extensive In Inthe Inthe inthe the Belfast district The city was isolated wh when n wires vere cut cuts Armed mobs entered the Grand Central hotel housing the government departments of pensions pensions- and labor labor- destroying many documents and s setting to the building The blaze blazo was extinguished extinguished extinguished ex ex Extensive raids were carried out in Cork Corle FIr Firemen men attempting to extinguish extinguish ex ex- cx- cx the b burning income tax office were hampered by crowds which cut ut the fire hose laughing at the efforts of o t the police and troops to aid the firemen At Newry one raider wa wits was captured capture by a woman She was a daughter of Collector Gandy Candy of or the Income tax c d department p When t the e woman came upon a man trying to set fire to her fathers father's office she seized him by the nose half laIr suffocated him and held him until her screams brought help DELIBE DELIBERATE ATE HOMICIDE At ten armed men men- entered the residence of at Kl Kleren Kieren ren Flynn led Flynn to the door of ot his home and shot and killed him Two policemen were were fired on from ambush in Co County nty Ma Mayo o Th Thy They y were wounded dangerously The TIse customs house at Limerick was gutted by fire tire Masked men covered th the tax lax assessor with revolvers while they destroyed the tax records The Irish Times stressed the difficulties difficulties facing acing Sir Hamar Greenwood the new chief secretary for tor Ireland In Prime Prim Minister Lloyd Georges George's Cab cab- inet met The new secretary Is confronted with a deliberate tar reaching conspiracy conspiracy con con- to make malte the country ungovernable ungovernable ungovernable by the British the newspaper said The government l Is gravely g hampered at this critical moment by bya a a. home homo rule bill which Is Iii h heaping coa coal on th the fires tires of revolution BRITISH PRESS ANGRY LONDON JONDON April 5 Organized 5 murder murder mur mur- der In Ireland now has been supplemented supplemented supple supple- merited by organized i the Post said today in commenting on the Irish situation Practically the entire press Joined in In Invoicing voicing British anger at the outbreak The Post charged that politicians la In London were hampering British executives in Ireland declaring there could be no DO other explanation for the governments government's humiliating failure to grapple with thre Sinn Fein conspiracy The Dally Daily News while e it continued to dl deplore lore British coercive methods that nevertheless there Is no language strong enough to characterize the criminality of deeds by which Irishmen are making malting their country a byword among nations |