General Sir John Maxwell's Report on the Sinn Fein rebellion
in Dublin was published on Saturday last. It proves that if the civil authorities were culpably negligent in- allowing -the conspiracy to mature; the soldiers showed both-courage and skill in suppressing-it within a week. At noon on Easter Monday, April 24th, the " armed bodies of civilians " who had been allowed to parade through Dublin-when and where they pleased suddenly attacked the Castle, seized the post office, the Four Courts, the magazine in Phoenix Park, Jacobs's biscuit lactory—the largest in the city—and many other buildings. At the moment there were only two thousand four hundred troops • in' Dublin, and Major-General 'Friend, the General commanding in Ireland, 'Was on leave in London: The Castle was- relieved , and-the-magazine- reoccupied.; -from- the Curragh
sixteen hundred cavalry arrived by the evening. But all that day Dublin, except for the Castle and Trinity College and the docks, was at the mercy of the rebels. The police, being unarmed, were helpless.
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