ROGER CASEMENT.
HIS MENTAL CONDITION.
The appeal by Roger Casement having failed against the verdict sud sentence of the High Court, by which he was-
high found guilty
treason and sentenced to death, public interest will bo focussed upts the question of subge-
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BANTAMS IN ACTION.
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STOIC COURAGE.
FROM PHILIP GIBBS.]
GERMANY'S FINANCIAL
PLIGHT
A group of prominent American bank- ers met at Boston to discuss the financial s'tuation of the European belligerents. Their conclusions, published by several daily newspapers, among them the New York San, have created great interest.
siderations:- They are based on the following con-
tirely from the rest of the world and cannot live on her own resources.
(2.)-Her capital is diminishing un- casingly because she is obliged to par neutral countries in gold for the pur chase of matters indispensable for her
A month or two ago I chanced to be which surround at a port in France when a transport qllent procedures. From a cable received at Britain have served hitherto as a ship came in with some new troops. The
other day, it appears that there is a complete defence, enabling us to main-men fled down the gangway and then (1.) Germany is separated almost ex- possibility of these being taken to the tain a certain detachment in Continental formed up on the quayside before being House of Lords. In these circumstances
With our superior, Navy we entrained, and as they did so I rubbed criticism on the Appeal affairs. comment or Court's decision and speculation upon could blockade the maritino ways of my eyes and wondered what had hap These men were somehowr the probable ontere of the reference to Europe, but retain the freedom of the different from all the other troops I have the ultimate tribun would be out of
At comparatively the battlefield. They were small me. seen arriving in France on their way to place. At the same time, it is quite seas for ourselves. within the limits of reason and justice small cost we have built up a Navy un-
Lord They were all wee chaps, stand-existence, all the fact that at the trial there equalled in its strength and ability boats, and, for the most part, less than many is from Co to 70 per cent. above the ing no more than sit in above their (3.)--The price of provisions in Ger was Babaiitted alundan evidence, docu- mentary as well as oral, in support of manned by numbers insignificant in com
that. There were hundreds and bund-normal. the indictment, and the fact that the parison with the military preparations reds of them--and some French soldiers, (4.)-She is accamlating an enormous Appeal Court did not think it necessary to call upon the Attorney-Genaralto of Continental States. The ditches sur- defend the verdiet or reply to the defonce rounding our island were suficiently set up postulates that the Court was broad and deep to protect us against convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt
anything more serious than a chance that the appellant had no case..
raid. However far-reaching the effect of this wax may prove to be, there are already outstanding facts established by the stress of recent events, The first,
It will be note that neither at the High Court nor in the published defence set up by Casement was any reference Ho wits inade to his state of mind. senterived to be hanged, and this was con- firmed on appeal, We are, therefore, that we shall be directly involved in entitled to presume that the question of maintaining the peace of Europe, and in sanity did not arise. There could hardly the protection of the weaker nationali tics. After all we have suffered that hive been a sudden aberration of mind in
our children's children must not pass Casement inte civelation
for the pamphlet he pub through the fire to Moloch. Civilisation lished for
in New will never stand a recurrence of Arm York (the preface of which was written in 1911) and cirralated by the Germanageddon from century, to century. The second, that a fleet, however efficient, Foreign Office throughout the United will be unable to restore our former States, showed what his purpose was. This pamphlet contained number of security, and that our actual preponder articles which had been collected by the ance in fighting ships will have to be notorious Kung Meger. In one of these, maintained against the silver navies of the skies and the 'submarines groping' written in November, 1914, Casement below the surface.
The day the first German comrade Dands in Ireland, the day the first Ger- DAU Warship is eru pridly breasting the waters of the Irish Sea, with the flag of Ireland at the fore, that day many Irishmen must die, but they will die in the Bare peace of God that Ireland may live.
A victorious Germany must draft her pod conditions us to preclude her great antagonist from ever again serioux- fr imperilling the freedom of the seas. I know of no way, save one, to make free the open seng: Ireland must be with- drawn from the study of England and restored to Europe."
CASEMENT DREAMT HE WOULD FAIL.
One morning last January, Sir Roger Casement came into the Hotel Adion, in Berlin, where several of us were sit 4iug (says an American writer). He told us of R dream that he had had the night before the dreamt that he was to be whether he was to be shot or hanged. But in his dream he had made up his mind he would rather die by his own hand, and be ent this veins of his legs, and was bleeding to death when he woke up. The shadow of the dream was over him to such an extent that we affected by it. We wondered if anything had happened to make him dream of Bo tangic an ending to his efforts to work for Ireland inside of Germany.
killed. The dream was not clear as to
were
That brought back to me vividly how, a fow evenings-before, when three of us had been together in the long corridor of the Adlon, talking of the war, I had noticed a Geruma officer come in and take his seat near enough to hear all that we said. We neither changed the subject or lowered our voices. But I saw Bir Roger flush slowly the deep red of re- pressed anger. I believed then that what I had heard was true that he was being followed and watched by the order of the Gorman Casement, and that he
officers waiting there by the boat were and English nurses, and tall British astonished by this apparition.
the
and
war debt, which she will be unable to pay. She is borrowing from her citizens
on the money which she has already bor- the money with which to pay the interest rowed from ther
(5)-Ber military power, although still great, is diminishing little by littles that of the Allies is increasing.
(3.)The resources of the Allies are: almost without limit."
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A word gave us the cue to the mystery The Bantams! Why of course, these were the first drafts of the famous Ban tam Division, of which rumours had come out from England. That was one of Kitchener's ideas, which came to him one day in Chester, when he saw a num-- ber of such men who were below standard of military height. Why not
It was further taken into considera- enrol them in a separate unit of their own can get you 3,000 of them, in that the mark has lost 25 per cent sir," said the Mayor of Chester,
in America, a thing which has never they are very keen to go." Before long happened before; that Germany is now there were 12,000 of them, recruited from purchasing less from neutral countries, Cheshire, and Lancashire, Warwickshire, as she can no longer pay cash and the NETH. and Gloucestershire, and beyond the system of exchange permits of only Tweed; and now a whole division are in limited operations to which the American the fighting line, and doing jolly well. millionaires of German origin, despite For some time I have seen their sign their noisy propaganda in favour of the about, outside their headquarters, and fatherland, do not give the least finan on their supply column-and sentries cial assistance and will not aid in the pacing up and down, with rifle and fixed | future, because they are not sufficiently bayonets, looking twice as long as their sure of Germany's victory to place their bodies, and little groups of little men fortunes at her disposal. Finally, they In respect of these two forms of war-marching along the roads of fare we are probably little better equip sturdily, with splendid discipline and a many began at the Marne, so her pecuni- war, say that, as the military defeat of Ger- ped than our adversaries. There is no short, quick step of short, strong legs. ary defeat will begin when her first war natural advantage in aireraft and in submarine which we do not share with our opponents.
LOOKING FORWARD.
We have become less insular and more Continental. It has been suggested that we ought to build granaries in order to store the produce of our own Dominions. By this means the submarine and the Zeppelin would fail to starve us out. Although a more intensive cultivation of our own soil would give us better results, yet it is doubtful whether we can ever dispense with an importation equivalent to three
These fourths of our consumption, granaries would not carry us very far and when the stores came to an end we should only have deferred the evil day, to find ourselves face to face with the problem at last.
The solution of our
"QALLANTEY IN ATTACK,
It is told in the treneies that when they came into the line, ror the first, tune the Germans, who were expecting them (they generally seem to know), called out **Lock-a-doodle-da!". Well, деу don't crow now over the Bantains. is the Bantams who crow over them in No Man's Land, which has been their Tom Tiddler's ground, where they go as hunting ou night patrol. They are not hurt by a little friendly chaff from big British soldiers, who think that length means quality, forgetting that Napoleon Roberts was a bantam. They be Was not very big in, his boots, and that devils in a charge if they can once get up to the elbow-rest and hop over the ping parapet," said an officer, who was chip
difficulty does not lie in this direction, It would be impossible to blockade every creek, bay and estuary of these islands.
one of them. Well, the Bantams We should get enough to eat, irregularly can't measure, a man's soul with a foot have not been long in proving that you supplied and at high cost. But an inter rule. In the trenches at Neuve Chapelle, ruption of communication between the where the fire steps were raised for them, heart of the Empire and its several parts they are endaring the ordeal of heavy would be a matter of the gravest import-bombardment with a stoic courage worthy
nuce.
lean has been exhausted.
A notable fact is that the Germano- phile organs of New York and Chicago have not replied to these statements.
BRITISH AND GERMANS AS
COLONISERS.
DIFFERENT METHODS AND THEIR RESULTS.
The difference between the British and the Germans as colonisers was aptly
illustrated by the Hon. B. B. Wise, Agent General for New South Wales, in an address to the Australasian Chamber of Commerce.
He said that after the capture by the Australians of some of the adjacent Ger- man colonies the German officers ad- mitted to them that the thing which vexed them most was not their defeat, for they recognised the superiority of the forces against them, but the fact that during all the time they had been in pos session of the country they had not been able to teach the natives German. They found that pidgin-English was the lingua-francn understood by the most widely-separated natives,
of the most hardened troops, and have The real dificulty is to be found in the shown a fine spirit of initiative and if we accured an advantage of fifty per character of submarine warfare. Even gallantry in attack as well as in defences It was the Gloucesters of the Bantam nt, over our opponent, that dimenity Division who made the raid on the Ger would remain. Aircraft can meet wir- nan trenches opposite Neuve Chapelle craft, but submarine cannot find sub-
on June 8, mentioned in the official com marine--at least not yet. These monsters muniqué. They killed a number of Ger- would creep about our sandy creeks and mans-big fellows all- and brought back shallows, rising to the surface at rarea Maxim gun. May 8 was a night when intervals, crossing each other by accident, many of the Bantatas showed a real Very soon the Atlantic will be darkened heroism, not losing their nerve, though Prepared and sent out. But it was found by huge airships and its depths explored many of their friends were killed and useless for practical purposes, and to the
Submerged tragic by submarines.
of wounded, and helping each other with very and they had to communicate with warships or liners will be conducted great devotion and self-sacrifice. Two the natives and even give orders to their with immunity from weather, Germany Bantams of the field anulance W. Jar-own troops in pidgin-English.
teers to an advanced dressing station, war, added Mr. Wise, than that no
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make me look at Sir Roger Casement is really no lim: to their possible size try under heavy shell fire, and having German authority has volunteered to He is a man who except the depth of water in which they brought up field dressings, spent the fight for them, while there is not a single of the last one in the world to be will have to operate. The submarine or night in helping to carry wounded down native race which has enjoyed the justice lotting against any country-England to day will be the exhibit of a future a rend swept by machine-gun fire. These of British rule which has not demanded Germany. He has a clear, Irish gray museum, like the old Rocket, the pioneer are only a couple of the many brave acts with passionate loyalty to be lad against oye, and the manner of a man to whom docomotive of the railway world. Com-dons during the last weeks by the the enemy by British officers." all publicity is embarrassing. He talkspared with the early twentieth century Bantams, whs have been awarded many very little. You do not even get the specimen, the submarine of the future
decorations. It is a pleasure to go among sense of repressed emotions beyond those will resemble an Atlantic liner beside them, as I did yesterday with the Gene- of any Irishoma who feels the tragedy river steamboat..
ral of their division, who has trained of his country.
them since they were first assembled. A platoon of them was paraded so that we might see the way, they carry their field kit when they are out on the marcha very light pack compared, with the or dinary equipment. A French woman was watching them out of a window and smiled in a motherly way at the warriors, and it is with such a smile of affection and admiration that they are greeted down the roads of war, for the Bantams are fine little fighters, and if I were & German in his trench I should not ery. Cook a doodle do !, when they came my way -Daily Telegraph....
His old frineds of the days whch his antagonism to England was not taken
In this development we shall recover seriously now say that he is, since the
our evannuations, for in nie or war war, mentally unbalanced. He did not we shall adopt the alternative of sub- give that impression in Berlin. He was aqucous navigation. The darkness of the taken most seriously by some of the most ea depths wat provide the path of Batery prominent and sold thinkers of Ger- for the great atners, and our imports many. As we sat in the Adlon lobby that exports and passengers will pass freely morning, the day after his dream, we from continent to continent. On quies asked him if it wore true that he thought days we may navigate the surface, but of going to Turkey. We felt it was a plunge below to escape the cunet desire to get away from Germany. For storm or the hail of spell. The freedoin we had heard that he was completely dis | of the sean will be translated from an couraged at the Germans delay in send ing an expedition to Ireland, and that the longer he stayed there the less like lihood there seemed to be that such an expedition would be started.
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Princess Mary is most anxious to take vessels, but it is doubtful whether the perimental period of submersion. But a cause is to be sought in the state of the if she were permitted, she makes no information. Apart from accidental secret, she would like to go in for muni- tion working. The Quren at present contact with such vessels, or with ice, type. It is most probable that all our condition of thin blood that is known as Beta hor face against ner only daughter actual risks of subaqueous traffic may gating ships will have the capacity of anxi
be less that surface transport. It is to descending below the surface. Whatever Overwork, lack of outdoor exercise, in- amdertaking auch arduous employment at her age says the Glugn Herald many that we owe the rapid develop-part.mines-mag-play in future sen war sufficient rest and sleep, improper dietro No. 212 But Princess Mary found an ardent She will also lead the way to protective rented by vessels able to avoid a mine thing is to restore the blood to normal, ment of these new methods of progress. fare they will be more easily circum these are a few of them. The important supporter of her wishes in the Prince of measures against them. The antidote is held y passing under it. The force of to build it up so that the colour will Wales, who, during his brief stay with mostly found in company with the poi attack, the power of the gun and the return to your checks and lipe his family, not only emphasised what a son, and the hair of the dog that bites torpedo are already overtaxing tho
Dr. Williams pink pills are the great fine example it would set the aristocracyus is the proverbial protection against strength of armoured-resistance, and the blood builder and invigorator. When but how it would endear the young hydrophobia. Princess to democracy if she were allow
old contests between gun and shield will taken they begin at once to increase the ed thus, during war, to take her share The obvious objection to this method of enter upon a new phase. Bo powerful red corpuscles in the blood, and the new the patriotic toils of the people. travel. is the comparative slowness, has the offensive become that already, blood carries strength and health to every Princess Henry of Battenberg and Prin occasioned by the resistance of water, from our current experience, we can part of the body. Appetite increases, Christian have both personally which is heavier than air. It is however, easily imagine two fleets equally matched, digestion becomes more perfect, energy erved soldiers at Londen termini buffets most probable that such vessels will be and both skilfully handled, which might and ambition return.
FREE Plain Talks to Women" is m the last few days. But the energetic constructed to use the surface of water practically destroy one another in the young Princess Mary declares she wants whenever possible, as the advantages of course of a single action. This is very a title of a useful Health Guide prepared Send a postcard to even more practical work, and in air and light may outweigh the disad serious when we take into account the for Indy readers. dignantly rejects any suggestion that her vantages of irregular motion. But these number of months required to produce, a
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