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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 25, 1940.
WHY WAS SIR ROGER CASEMENT HANGED
FOR TREASON?
THE
*HE `honours list in the year 1911 includ-] no secret, even if they were matter for be- ed, among those upon whom the hon wilderment to his former English friends.
out- our of knighthood was conferred, the name In 1914, a tow months, before the Roger Casement. Handles are commonly break of the Great War, Casement sailed regarded. as highly desirable embellishments for New York to raise funds for munitions to a man's name, but for the tall, slim, for the nationalist Irish Voluntéors. Be- frail man, with the vandyke beard and fore he left he promised to return with brooding blue eyes, the type of the news-| 50,000 rifles. He kept his word. Shortly paper that morning conveyed to him news before the first shot was fired in the war, there was landed at Howth, the promised not altogether of unalloyed pleasure,
During the long years he had served his means for the ending of the British yoke. Britannic Majesty as Consul' in far places, The consignment was scarcely unshipped Roger Casement never aimed at nor de before news of it came to the ears of the sired this mark of royal favour. If he had authorities. In electric moment the
it Spirit of Rebellion reared its head.
At a. spent himself freely, even recklessly, was because a deep love of his fellow man demonstration in Bachelor's How that day, British troops fired on the crowd. Many animated him, while righteous wrath was his constitutional response to cruelty, and were killed. The movement for an inde pendent Ireland took a giant step forward. pity for suffering,
news In New York, Casement awaited impatiently. It came on a torrid afternoon as he walked the burning pavements of snatched at a newspaper New York, He and stood reading the flaring lines and was
There had been the Equatorial African phase. First the chance meeting with the
Sandford, American General
the sealed pact under that humid sun, and the plunge the days into the unknown. Those were when a long-bearded monarch sat in Brus- acls and raked in vast wealth wherewith to maintain a European seraglio.
Casement followed on the heels of Sand- ford through those dim villages of the rub- ber forests where human life seemed, un. der the Belgian tyranny, of less value than the mosquitoes that feasted day-long upon the blood of man.
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to his consciousness.
Then he went to America, and from hun- dreds of platforms told the people of the Great Republic the truth about the source of this new and essential raw material of 'thus engaged whoh a soft voice penetrated
The British the modern industrial world. Government took notice. Casement was appointed travelling commissioner in the Nigerian Protectorate. He advanced in the service until he became Consul in the Con- go State.
The very word Congo became one of hot ror throughout the world when Casement's reports came through, and it had been then that he had received his, first mark of State recognition, the C.M.G. Now it was a what he asked himself knighthood, and would his Irish friends have to say. Later that morning, writing to Dublin, he wrote: "Many in Ireland will think me a traitor." For a man of his code, what word could so well express contempt?.
When the British, Government reckoned that Casement's work in Africa was done, it transferred him to. another plague spot. While he was serving as Consul-General at Para, Casement heard the first stories of what was taking place in the green hell of the Putomayo. It was the Congo horror all over again; but even worse. Casement, his pen blistering with wrath, got the facts, the names, and the records, and made them known..
After six long
and years he returned, there came this honour. But with the hon- our came a dark thought: Was the horror of the Putomayo re-lly stamped out? Un- til he could feel completely and utterly kurc of it, Casement knew that he could know no rest, draw not even one instalment his pension in peace.
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A month later Casement sailed once again for South America.. A further two years passed before he could feel satisfied and retire. He returned to Dublin, the city of his childhood. And, now began the final phase of one of the most tragic careers in all our history.
Throughout the arduous years of his long service, Casement, a bachelor, had always saved a large proportion of his official sa- lary, This money he set aside for Irish propaganda purposes.
Retired, he felt himself free to add to that monetary donation, the glit of his leisure hours. So began a career of agitation, of] work for the cause of Irish freedom from the English yoke.
By 1912 the shadow of war with Germany loomed large already. Casement consider ed the pattern, ever in flux, of the Euro- pean scene, Perhaps, he argued, this was the supreme moment in the destiny of his country. Forthwith, he proclaimed his new thesis. "If Germany can beat England, he argued, "then Ireland can shake off the yoke for evermore."
Casement belleved that Germany would win the war, and laid his plans, according- ly, He made no secret of his sentiments. He spoke, in public and in private, and he wrote, too. Naturally, his activities were
DADDY- WHY SO. SAD?
man.
and
A stranger was addressing him. He glanced up to see a blond young man with pale blue eyes and the tanned skin of a seafaring
Casement listened what he heard was a hard luck story as old as time. Thrusting his hand into his poe- ket, Casement passed a dollar to the man he now knew as Adler Christensen, "Give me your address and I'll try and find you a job," he added.
Then he furned and went on his way, reading the news of the Howth debacle, Behind him, alert and watchful, followed the Norwegian.
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One day, when the British and French armies were Bghting with their backs the wall, and defeat seemed within easily measurable distance, a tall, Iean, clean- shaven man with a Dublin brogue, booked in at an Oslo (then Christiania) hotel,
the
Having made himself comfortable, visitor told his man-servant, whom he ad- dressed as Adler, and whose Norwegian nationality was obvious, that he could take a walk. Christensen, for it was he, went off and headed for the nearest saloon. No sooner had he entered it than a smiling stranger offered him a drink.
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"By the way," remarked the affable stranger a bit later, "weren't you aboard the Oskar II." Christensen admitted it. "And wasn't there a tall Irishman aboard, dear me, what is his name now? Chris- tensen said he had no idea and returned to report. It was then clear to Casement that he was already being trailed by the British Secret Service,
And Things began to look awkward. they were to become more so, as Christen-
in discovered when,
answer to stranger's invitation to do so, he rang up a telephone number.
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He took a car to the address he was giv- en and was told by the man who awaited him that Casement's identity was known as also the object of the expedition, namely, to raise an Irish Brigade from among the captured Irish troops. Christensen decided to have it both ways, took a substantial bribe, but made off to Germany with his master.
In Germany, Casement was given facili- ties to visit the Irish prisoners. He enter- ed their camps and harangued them. He expected that they would respond to a man to his eloquence.
Instead, they shouted opprobrious epitnets in rough soldiers' Vernacular at him, He was stunned by this: reception, which was Incomprehensible to him. Irishmen stand- ing by England like that. He simply did not understand. But it came near break- ing his heart when only a few fellows res. ponded. (Thesb, later, it transpired, did so de to obtain their freedom by this ruse. guerre, and a fair one enough),
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