A BURLESQUE REVOLUTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 156, 1 July 1916, Page 13

A BURLESQUE REVOLUTION.

HTTMOTJRS OF THE STICN - FEIN Kisnro. ECS3IES IN THE SOUTH AND WEST. Stories are coming through bpi of t'io events in Ireland outside the Dublin area. They make curious reading, reminiecent of the daye of long ago. Mr. Ernest Townley, of the "Daily Express," telle hpw County Galway "rose" in th<) name of the Eepublic, and quickly, very quickly, 6ubsided. I The "rebels" concentrated at Athenry, where the experimental farm of the lijeh Agricultural Department was eeized, and food supplies obtained. THE SERGEANT'S TL&S. A second party of rebels besieged thej A-tbenry police barracke from a-emfe dis-j tgnce, and a third party tried to capture I the barracks in the viDage of Oranmore, i which is on the verge of the bay. | They were foiled by the iron nerre and the audacity of Sergeant Healey, of Granmore, whe, with four constables to back bun, determined to fight to the death. "TI we have to die, we will d ; e decent," 6»id fche sergeant- to hie men with hi» rich hrogue and hie rich Irieh pronunriation, which makes "deceit" sound ac if epelled "dacest- 9. The sergeant and one man loaded their rifle* and revolvers, and took their etation in a cottage opposite the police station. They knew tiie Tebele wojjld try to ta-ke the cottage from wlw*--tfeey could fire into the station. M»W HIT. "Ye baiie twalve .rhound«v" eaje geant Healey to his men. "By the time the twalfth man's down the thirteenth wont he here. Keep 0001, now; don't waste yer-ehots. We're the front dhoor, for the bhoye in the barracks vriH cover that. It's only tlie back dhoor we've got to hold. I'll fire a shot. Then if tha have any determination in 'e.n tWll thry and break down the door. Then take yer aim, and, if ye keep-cool, for ivery ehot there will be one man down." The-,.rebels approached, theyback- door, and Sergcooi Healey' fired. One i-man Vmtfiide fell wounded in-the leg. Tbe reetnesi. "It was not;*the one I intended;" eaid Sergeant Healey, "tmt a. iooiisVjoung feHow. But rcooidiit-eee tlrro.ngn tbe door." The sergeant waS'in-Jiis-.bare-ifoefc and■was enwking hie pipe when, just afl»r ifteettact, the dietricfc ii»peetor>»rri*e4 viith Mrinfotccniente. * '1 dropped mc poipef uaid Boegtmtk .Jtrminj, "TwrtJ-the-digtriefc'iMpectoi e»ys, 'Tick up yex poipe, Sergeant Healey. Tβ -can foight whoile je emokel"

IN A CASTLE. That day th.c rebel force 3 marched a few milefi to Mojode Castle, a beantifnl | ht.one-turrcted maneion belonging to! Lady Ardilaun. Mr. Jlohn Shacklotou | and his wife and daughter take care of | the empty castle. The rebels became; their uninvited fruests from the Wednes-! day to the Friday a week ago. They fillet! the whole caetle, bnt treated Mr. Shacklcton and his family I wtth respect, although they killed sonic i cliickens for dinner. They asked ■Shacklcton to play her piano for then;, but she flatly refused. One of the girl rebels turned pianist to the "army" and rtayed tunes while the .rebels.and their i "ladies" danced reels and jigs in the baronial hall. The "army" thought that the old j order of thinge was about to' be aboiI ifibed, and the millennium introduced. "Shure," they said when asked what tiey intended, "we are all getting to be alflce." One of them wore a pair of commandeered epats as a beginning. They made no effort to reader the caetle tenable as a military post. They I vent round the country collecting e;gs I i>nd nrilk and bread. At night they J danced. On th« Friday the scoute cI ported that eoWiore were coming. Tbe 1 "army" loaded up its wagons and pushed I off. It halted a few milce away. 1 THE END. Twenty RXO. men came up with -fixed ' bayonets and charged towards the. camp. The rebels, with, dSkrent ideas of dying "decent," took to their heels. That wae the-end of ttir rebellion, in tbe-west. IS "REBEL CORK." An -am ny account is given by a apeeM ooneepondent of the "Daily Hail" of the way in which-an attempted i Sinn Fein riot at Cork wae quelled. About a tbooßSnd Sinn Feiners as- • Bern tried,and sought to-git tp the streets. SoJdiee with bayonete fixed were eummooed. VBiat followetf.is thae described by the -coexespondest :— A tremendouß Irish sergeant with a face and a jaw of absolute terror-inspir-ing ferocity led them, planted lines of > them, 'five paces apart, acroee the road, i gave them the order to load, and climb- " ing upon a handy tramway-car, addreeeed the mob in a great voice of brasß: — i "Now, thin, ye dam fools. Dhrop al' • this. nonsense,. and' go borne quiet. , And as Joryeu, MoHjr"—(he addressed a i tall woman standing near with a Mack shawl picturesquely wrapped'across "her , head^— "ye ought ? to be aabemed o , yerseT to lie a Sine FuiiieJ!' (io home, > Molly,-amdTtalce the dn&ken. wid>siei" In dead sOenoe tbe crowd loarered for '■■ a moment, the <line of; naked hayonote t gleaming "under the sizzle ni fibe tall electric''lights. The- CTowrf^awa that tlie -■ et>Miere meant Vmsinos*!. Somebody • started" to "whistle "Who Pkartß to' Speak t A. fellow Sbm Fener at Wβ et4e β^eneed',him-wfthda- Movia ; #te morrtii—«id?th%t*ieeemeil- to finieh , :Uif- trouble. , The robot ranlce of "Rebel Cork" w»y-. ered, broke, and speedily melted away.