IRISH AFFAIRS

Taihape Daily Times, 30 May 1918, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS

THE SUBMARINE AND IRELAND. STORY OF THE LANDING. Received 10.10 a.m. LONDON, May 29: The Daily Chronicle's correspondent gives details of the arrest of the man put ashore from a German submarine and is now in London awaiting courtmartial. Two fishermen on 13th April, who were near the cliffs of Moher County Clare, noticed a man on the barren islet waving a handkerchief violently. They rowed him ashore. He said his name was O'Brien, and the survivor of a torpedoed ship. After he had been provided with food and clothing the authorities arrested him. The police found the torpedoing story untrue. The man had a good deal of English silver in his pockets, moreover, a collapsible boat was found wrecked near the cliffs of Moher. The man, evidently a spy, landed on the islet at night in mistake for the mainland. He endeavoured to destroy the boat, and then discovered at daylight that he had marooned himself.