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INTERPRETED AS WEAKNESS. \ START OF IRISH REVOLT. (Received 10.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 3. f. The report of the commission inquiring v into the Irish outbreak states that continued importation of arniis into Ireland, 1 and the Government's toleration of the / drilling of large bodies first in Ulster and then elsewhere, ere * d conditions ren- ' | dering possible the recent troubles. The failure to suppress sedition and the drill, ing of forces by men who declared they would welcome the King's enemies de« , i veloped the belief that the Government " would not repress sedition. This was the . immediate cause of the outbreak. The I Government had abundant material on. > • which they could have acted long before the leaders themselves contemplated the rising. . ■
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 158, 4 July 1916, Page 6
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