Viceroys and Chief Secretaries: Dublin Police message, 1916
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MS. Nathan 476, fol. 53r
Dublin Metropolitan Police telephone message transcript, 24 April 1916.
This is one of hundreds of such documents among the papers of Matthew Nathan, Under Secretary of State for Ireland, giving a minute by minute account of incidents in the Easter Rising.
The transcript reads:
Chancery Lane, 24-4-1916
Received at 1.52 PM
Sent at 1.53 PM
From S.S. Thompson To Chief Superintendent"There is a battle now raging between the military and volunteers at High St"
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