Roger Casement's Plot.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 5 January 1918, Page 1

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 . to the Casement conspiracy. The first letter, written from the Berlin Foreign Office, under date of December 28, 1914, is addressed to Casement by the UnderSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Herr Zimmermann. It states that the Imperial Government has accepted Casement's proposal for the formation of an Irish brigade to fight only in the cause of Irish nationality, under the conditions contained in the contract ready concluded between Casement and the German Government. These condi- . tions provided that in certain circumstances the Irish Brigade should be sent to Ireland well furnished with stores and munitions to help equip the Irish for a united attempt to restore freedom to Ireland by force of arms. Among the special conditions mentioned were the following, namely, that in the event of a German naval victory rendering it possible to reach Ireland, the German Government undertook to assist the Irish Brigade with a German auxiliary corps, under the command of German officers, in German transports, which would be landed on the Irish coast. The landing in Ireland would, however, only be considered expedient I in the event of a German victory offer- ■ i n S g°od prospects for a successful pasBsage to Ireland, failing which the Irish would bo employed in Geror elsewhere, solely, however, in manner already agreed upon with In such a contingency the Brigade might be sent to Egypt to assistance in restoring Egyptian