THE REBELLION AND ITS SEQUEL I The facts of the Irish rebellion are too generally familiar to need more than the briefest restatement--and perhaps too little known for an attempt at detailed analysis.

Broadly, a general parade of the Irish Volunteers all over the country was ordered for Easter Sunday.

On the night before Good Friday a German ship with a cargo of rifles was off the Irish coast.

This ship, the _Aud_, was a few hours later captured and taken in convoy by a British sloop, so that the arms were never landed.

Emissaries from the Volunteers who had gone to Kerry by motor-car to receive and arrange for distributing the arms were killed in a motor accident while hurrying back to get in touch with their headquarters.