SITUATION IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21142, 28 March 1932, Page 9

SITUATION IN IRELAND.

REBELLION OF 1916. PLANS FOR CELEBRATION. : republicans active. PARADE TO CEMETERY. ORATION OVER DEAD. 33y Telezraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received March 27, 5.5 p.m.) LOXDON, March 20. Messages from Dublin state that, posters reproducing the proclamation of Ireland E5 a Republic in 1916, also calling upon the people of Ireland to unite in a jsuprcmc effort to break the country's connection with tho British Empire and establish a " free and sovereign Irish Republic" were nflixed profusely to hoardings in Dublin yesterday in preparation for the celebration to-morrow of the anniversary of the Easter rebellion. The Irish Republican Army, the Cumann na Mban (women's Republican organisation) and kindred bodies, which the Cosgrave Government had banned, are very active throughout the Free State. There is to be a procession to Glasnevin cemetery, where an oration will be delivered "at Republicans' graves. Tho leaders of the parade will include Georgo Gilmore, who recently was released after serving a term of imprisonment under the Public Safety Act. Mary McSweenev is to head a similar demon-

stration at Cork. A high official of the Irish Republican Army told the Dublin correspondent of the Sketch that orders had been issued to all ranks not to carry arms in to-morrow's celebrations. Any infringement of this regulation would be followed by stern disciplinary measures. "The time is not ripe for trouble," said ♦he official, " and there will be none on Sunday. - ' "The Easter rebellion in Ireland—in it- - - self an epoch-marking event —so far as active hostilities and open warfare were concerned, commenced on Easter Monday, 1916, and terminated at the close ~of the week with the. surrender of the insurgents. ■ s The .objects of the insurrection were declared in a proclamation issued on April t 24, 1916, and signed by Thomas J. Clarke, Sean MacDiarmada, Thomas MacDonagh, P. 11. Pearse, Eamonn Ceannt. James Connolly and Joseph Plunkett. " Ireland having organised and trained her manhood," the proclamation stated, "through her secret revolutionary organisation and her open military organisations and having resolutely -waited for the right moment to reveal itself, now seizes that moment and strikes in full confidence of victory. Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent national government, representative of the whole of the people of Ireland, and elected by the suffrage of her men and women, the Provisional Government hereby constituted will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people." The signatories of the proclamation composed the Provisional Government referred to. They were all tried by courtmartial after the surrender, and were shot. Martial law was proclaimed on the outbreak of the insurrection, courts-martial were set up all over the country, and numbers of people taken in arms were executed. Hundreds of people were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, and more than 1000 were deported and kept in English and Scottish prisons. On July 11, 1916, the British military headquarters at Dublin issued official figures showing that the number of prisoners who passed through Richmond Barracks was 3226, of whom 3149 were men arid 77 women. Of the moil 1104 were released: 160 were convicted bv courts-martial; 23 were aequited; and 1862 were interned. Of the women 72 were' released and five interned. . All the prisoners were released on January 15, 1917.

SECRET MANIFESTO. DEMAND FOR REPUBLIC. DAIL TO CONSIDER BUDGET. * (Received March 2S. 12.15 a.m.) LONDON". March 27. The reply of the President of the Dail, !Mr. de Valera, to the British Note about th c oath of allegiance and the payment of land annuities is expected in Lonc|on later in the week. J.i the meantime Mr. do Valera and his colleagues refuse to make a statement. Mr. W. T. Cosgrave nlso intends to remain silent until the Republicans' .proposals aie introduced in th c Dail which, when it, meets on April 20, will be. immediately occupied, not Ivith (ho. oath but thc Budget. The Dublin correspondent of thc Sunday J imos says he learns that a secret manifesto prepared by tho council of the Irish Republican Army is to b(f read at 50 demonstrations throughout tho Free State to-day. This demands tlie adoption by the .Government of every means to secure th c establishment of an Irish Republic.

TARIFF IMPOSED. agricultural machinery.

Advantage to empire goods. (Received March 27. 5.5 p.m.) DUBLIN. March 20. The Irish Free State Government has imposed an immediate tariff of 33 1-3 per per cent, on all foreign-made agricultural machinery not mechanically propelled, and a 25 per cent, duty on similar British ® n d Dominion-made goods.