CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 May 1916, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

| J3LKOTUIC TJBLBOItAI'H —COI'YHIOHT. j Ll'Ell I'IIKBS ASSOCIATION.j TRIAL OF CASEMENT. Londoafi May 15. Intense interest is 'being taken in the Casement trial. The demand .for | admission tickets was so great that the authorities have determined to issue none. The procedure resenub'es the Lynch case in .'903. Casement is in good health, tho igh then.' were indications or his breaking down during the first days after his arrest. He was taken to Brixton Gaol by a strong a.rmed guard and thence to the Tower, where he was incarcerated 111 the room occup'ed by the German spy Lodv on the night before his execution. It is expected Casement will be brought to Bow Street in a taxi cab with an armed guard. He will be spared the indignity of a journey "Mack Mnria." Messrs. Smith and Bodkin will lead for the Crown. Mr Tim Healev refused a brief or Casement. (Received This Day 10.n a.m.) London, May i 5 The Attorney-General, in reply '• i (|ii st:oner, said that the charges against Casement and Hailev .v.'re that they committed high' treason on divers occasions 'between the 'st November, 1914, and 21 st April, 191(1. Bailey, in a statement made to the police on 21st April, said he was a reservist in the Irish Rifles. A goods porter at Paddington Station (who was recalled to the colours «it the outbreak of the war, and sailed to Franco with the original Expeditionary .Force and, who was token prisoner early in September. 1914) out lined Sir Roger Casement's history, stating that evidence woiiVl be given of his attempts to seduce Irish prisoners in Germ my from their allegiance to Great Britain. This evidence would be on lines already known. In the event of Germany winning the s*»a battle Casement was to lond a brigade in Ireland; in the event of Germany losing, every man | would have received £10 to £20 and a free pass to America. A few prisoners seceded from their allegiance, and , received certain privileges. These included! a green uniform, decorated with a harp. Bailey was one of these.

Casement was found hiding in a rained fort. He gave the name of Richard Morton. Later, in London, he confessed! to his identity. When the men were formally charged. Casement declared that Bailey was innocent. He wished to provide v or Bfiilcy's defence. John Robertson, a .returned; army medical prisoner, gave evidence 'hat Casement addressed the Irish prisoners at Limburg. One prisoner attacked Oasememt. About fifty joined, the Irish brigadeLondon. May 15. Dnniel Julian Bailey, a soldier who was orre.sted with Sir Roger Casement, was an Irish prisoner «t Limburg who aeeeptodi Casement's offer to assist the Germans. He was placed in the dock with Casement, and charged with having been guilty ot Tfigh treason on divers occasion* from November 1914. FINANCIAL CRISIS IN OIIINA. Shanghai. May 15. Despite the moratorium, shareholders in the Bank of China have declar ed. thot they will continue This decision unquestionably has prevented an unparalleled panic as there has been a run on the bank *inoe Thursday lost. Crowds of natives are besieging the bank, and converting notes into gold. The foreign banks are asssiting the Bank of China and the com-mercinl situation is good. It is recognised thot the crisis is due to political causes. The moratorium is universally condemned as an act of criminal folflv that may lead to foreign intervention.