The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORTED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1916. THE TRAITOR CASEMENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 19, 27 April 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORTED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1916. THE TRAITOR CASEMENT.

'ln every part of the Empire there will be deep sorrow and regret that the fair name and fame of Ireland is again sullied by such happenings as the Dublin riots. The miserable renegade Roger Casement, flattered and duped by Germans who in their hearts despise him as all traitors arc despised, has made great efforts in the past to stir up strife in Ireland, and as these riots occurred almost > coincidcntly with Casement’s capture on board a German auxiliary vessel loaded with arms for disaffected Irishmen, or Irishmen that it was hoped to disaffect, it is almost undoubted that he has engineered the trouble ami led Germany to believe that Ireland was prepared to rise solidly against (he Empire. The thing in itself is comparatively trivial, and the lirobrands of the Trish-Ameriean SinnKeiu type will soon be put in their places by their saner countrymen whose loyalty has never, for one moment, been doubted. 13ut the pity of the whole thing is that in enemy countries and in some weak-kneed neutral countries also, German cunning will cause blazing untruths regarding flue whole matter Lo be pub-) lislit*d broadcast and fresh heart may . be given to downcast enemies. The j quick capture of the renegade Rogerj Casement, oven before he landed on Irish soil, will do much to nip the wicked scheme in the . bud, and wo cloj

spread very far. Proper punishment will doubtless be meted out to the leaders of the rioting and death to the traitor who has so disgraced an honourable name.