AUSTIN STACK TAKEN

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 90, 16 April 1923, Page 7

AUSTIN STACK TAKEN

LETTER ADMITS DEFEAT.

LONDON, 15th April. Followingwolosely on the police revelations, after the London midnight raid of the Irish rebels,, of plans of war on London on a grand scale, comes news of the capture of Austin Stack, the fiercest rebel, on whom were found documents saying that further military efforts in Ireland were futile.

Stack was found unarmed, alone, hiding in a ditch, near where Lynch was captured. He was caught while troope and aeroplanes were hunting for de valera, and was taken to Clonmel without resisting. He was found to possess a document bearing the signature of the Executive. This speaks of the gravity of the situation of the army of the Be- . public owing- to the great odds facing them and the losses lately sustained, v, proceeds: "Being- of the opinion that a furtuer military effort would be futile and only cause injury to the country without obtaining an advantage, and convinced that ten months' defensive war has made it impossible for tthe Irish people ever to accept less than full national rights and fearing that it would cause delay to await summoning a full meeting of the Army Council, we, the undersigned members of the Army Council, hereby call upon and anthorise the President of the Republic to order the immediate cessation of hostilities. Volunteers are requested to hand in their arms pending the election of the Government, which will bo the free choice of the people."