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Northern Advocate, 3 May 1916, Page 3

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i lei aiders both wounded. j j SAOKVILLE STREET IN RUINS. ! | ('Press Assn.—-Reed. 10.40 p.m.) , LONDON, May 1. .' The rebels' first offer to surrender ,' came dramatically at 4 o'clock on ■ Saturday afternoon. As the cordon : slowly closed in on the rebels' main \ strongholds in the street j | area suddenly a white flag appeared ' i above the smoke on the post office. ] | Pearce and Connolly, who were badly ! j wounded, then emerged and signed an ] j unconditional surrender. Half of . I Sackville street is in ashes and : I handsome shops and business houses ; | lie in ruins. The only things untouch- ■ jed are the monuments. The deaths number hundreds. The roofs in Four Courts are littered with bodies'. Among the insurgents the first step /was the circulation of reports that Verdun had fallen, Holland had de- , clared war against Britain and that the British fleet had been defeated in the North Sea, losing eighteen ships ,' : to Germany's eight. They also issued j : a broadsheet asserting that the troops '■ in Ireland had been everywhere re- i| pulsed and the populace was singing j ■ the "Republicans." ' } The military declare the Sinn Fein - sharpshooters were remarkably ac- . curate in the early stages of the con- ] diet. The rebels ate the best meals ] obtainable at the hotels. The last ~ rebel fortress, Jacob's factory, was , captured on Sunday.' It was finally subdued by artillery. ft — t