ROGER CASEMENT'S PLOT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 84, 2 January 1918, Page 9

ROGER CASEMENT'S PLOT

GERMAN REVELATIONS. _ The Zurich ''Volksrecht," the leading Socialist organ of Eastern. Switzerland, publishes a number of important German official documents relating 10 tho Casement conspiracy. The first letter, written from the Berlin Foreign Office, under date of December 28, J,!)i<l, is addressed to Casement by tho Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Herr Zimniermann. It states that the Imperial Government has accepted Casement's proposal for the formation of an Irish brigade to light only in the. cause of Irish nationality, under the conditions contained in the contract already concluded between Casement and the German Government. The'to conditions provided that in certain circumstances tho Irish Brigade should he sent to Ireland well furnished with stores and munitions to help equip the. Irish for a united attempt to tvstore freedom to Ireland hy force of arms.

Among the special conditions irentioned were the following, namely, that in the event of a German naval victory rendering it possible to reach Ireland, the Gorman Government undertook to assist the Irish. Brigade with a German auxiliary corps, under Oie command of German officers, in German transports, which would bn landed on the Irish coast. The landing in Ireland would, however, only he consider,ed expedient in tho event of a German victory offering good prospects for a successful passage to Ireland, failing which the Irish Brigade would be employed in Germany, or elsewhere, solely, however, in the manner slready agreed upon with Casement. In such a. contingency the Irish Brigade might lie sent to' Egypt to render assistance in restoring Egyptian independence.