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Show SERIOUS RIOTS OCCUR i DUBLIN Troops Sent to Quell Disturbance Disturb-ance Twelve Civilians and Four or Five Soldiers Killed. TELEGRAPH WIRES CUT Pos toff ice Forcibly Taken and Rebels in Position in Several Sev-eral Paris of City. London, April 25, 12:35 p. m. Immediately Im-mediately upon the return to London Lon-don this morning of Premier Asqulth from his Easter outing, Augustine Birrell, Bir-rell, chief secretary for Ireland, called on him. Birrell announced in the house of commons today that gavo disturbances disturb-ances broke out in Dublin yesterday. He added that troops had been sent to the Irish capital and that the situation situa-tion was now well in hand Minister Birrell said that twelve persons had been killed before the disturbances wore quelled. Mr. Birrell made his announcement in reply to a question byiCommoner Crang immediately after the assembling assem-bling of the house. He said that the postoffice had been forcibly taken possession of and that telegraphic communication had been cut. Mr. Birrell said soldiers arrived from Curragh and the situation was now well In hand, although as communication com-munication was exceedingly difficult he was not ablo to give any further particulars. But the house, he continued, con-tinued, might take it from him that the situation was-woll in hand. - The chief secretary for Ireland declared de-clared he could not say whether any persons had been arrested, neither could he give any names. Speaking from the Information he had received, he could say that twelve lives had been lost. Communication with Dublin, Dub-lin, he said, still was very diffjcult Mr Birrell declared that the rebels were in possesion of four or five different dif-ferent parts of the city of Dublin. He also announced that four or five soldiers had been killed. At 7 o'clock last night, Mr. Birrell said, four or five different parts of Dublin wero in the possession of the rebels, but he said they did not control con-trol the whole place. oo |