AN ALLEGED PLOT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 16 February 1915, Page 7

AN ALLEGED PLOT.

TO KIDXAI' SIR R. CASICMEXT. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. London, February 14.

Sir Roger Casement, in a communication to tlie newspapers, accuses Mr. Findlav, Minister to Norway, of intending to kidnap him. He shows what purports to be a photographic copy of a letter in which Mr. I'indlay, in his own handwriting, on behalf of the. British Government, promised Casement's manservant, Christense'n, a Norwegian. £SOOO in the event of bis capturing Casement. lie says that Cliristensen declares that Findlav urged him to lure Casement to tin; coast, where n llritish ship could seize him, or, better still, to knock him on the head. Christenseii was in possession of the key to the back door of the Christiana Legation, enabling him to enter unobserved during the negotiations in October, when Casement was in Christiana. Casement asks Norway for protection in view of liis proceeding to Norway, to submit proofs. (Sir Roger Casement wns a British Consul in South America, who first published reports of Putumayo outrages on Indians who gathered rubber, lie had retired from the service, and soon after the beginning of the war proceeded to Berlin and offered assistance to Germany from Ireland. His friends alleged that he had gone out of his mind.)