THE IRISH PLOT
AN UNFORTUNATE EMBASSY FROM j GERMANY j LANDS ON THE WRONG ISLAND , r,,, „„ ~ London, May 29. \ Ilio Daily Chronicle's" correspondent '. at Cork forwards details of the arrest of i ft man'who was put ashore from a German submarine, ;ind is now in tho Tower of London awnitiijg, court-martial. Two ' fishermen on April 111, near the cliffs of i Holier. ,in County Clare, noticed a man I on a barren islet waving his handker- ! chief violently. They rowed him nshore, , mid ho said his name was O'Brien, and j that he was a survivor from a torpedoed ', Ship. After ho was provided with fond and clothing by tho authorities, ho Avus ! arrested, as the police found that llm slory of tho torpedoed vessel was not true. The man had a-good deal of English money in his pockets. Moreover, a collapsible boat was found wrecked near (ho cliffs -of Holier. Evidently the spy landed on.tho islet at night in mistake for the mainland and endeavoured to destroy tho boai, and discovered at daylight that ho lmd marooned himself.— Aus.-N.Z. Cnble Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 216, 31 May 1918, Page 5
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182THE IRISH PLOT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 216, 31 May 1918, Page 5
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