SOWING BISLOYALTY
GERMAN PRIESTS AND IRISH PRISONERS. , p T Telegraph—Press Association—CopyTisht , v : London, August 17. A, French doctor, returned l after a period of internment in Germany, states that : German - priests endeavoured, on behalf of the military, to sow disloyalty , among two. thousand Irish at Limburg. Then, a proclamation was circulated to the ef- , feet that it was for the men to say whether they would fight as a German Irish Brigade under the Irish flag for ' Ireland's independence. Three-men succumbed to the appeal, and were removed to Berlin after being attacked by their comrades. Later; they returned as missionaries with a glowing account of their . treatment by the Germans. When the doctor left fifteen others had enlisted.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2544, 19 August 1915, Page 5
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118SOWING BISLOYALTY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2544, 19 August 1915, Page 5
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