City will be confined to barracks under the direction of the
Competent Military Authority. An order will be issued to
inhabitants of city to remain in their houses until such time as
the Competent Military Authority may otherwise direct or permit.
Pickets chosen from units of Territorial Forces will be placed at
all points marked on maps 3 and 4. Accompanying mounted patrols
will continuously visit all points and report every hour. The
following premises will be occupied by adequate forces, and all
necessary measures used without need of reference to headquarters;
after which followed a list.

"Alderman Kelly, in continuing, said that the document was
evidently genuine, and that he had done a public service in drawing
attention to it, in order to prevent these military operations
being carried on in a city which he declared was under God the most
peaceable in Europe.

"This document was an entire fabrication. Copies of it found since
the outbreak are shown by identification of type to have been
printed at Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the Citizen Army. It
is not known who was the author of this invention, or whether Mr.
Little was in any way responsible for it. Many copies of this
forged document were printed and distributed, and it was widely
considered by the people to be genuine, and no doubt led to the
belief by the members of the Irish Volunteers and Citizen Army that
they would shortly be disarmed. This undoubtedly became one of the
proximate causes of the outbreak."

All Thursday seems to have been devoted principally to the bringing in
of reinforcements, which, by this time, were pouring in from England.

Instead of using them for isolated attacks on the different strongholds,
they appear to have been concentrated as an ever-narrowing cordon around
the central position of the rebels at the Post Office.

Hence, by Thursday evening the tables had been completely turned upon
the rebels, and instead of dominating the city, the city on every side
hemmed them in; and the Law Courts, the College of Surgeons, Jacobs's
biscuit factory and Boland's bakery, though amply supplied with food and
ammunition, had been all practically isolated one from another--in the
last-named place the rebels forced the bakers, at the point of the
bayonet, to continue making bread.

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