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Show GERMAN SHIP IS CAPTURED Had on Board Sir Roger Casement Case-ment With Shipment of Arms for Irish. London, April 24, 10:25 p. rn. Sir Roger Casement has been captured from a German sTilp which attempted to land in Ireland and was sunk. This official announcement was made tonight to-night as folio W8: "During the period between tho afternoon aft-ernoon of April 20 and the afternoon of April 21, an attempt to land arms and ammunition in Ireland was made by a vessel under the guise of a neutral neu-tral merchant ship, and which In reality re-ality was' a German auxiliary, in conjunction con-junction with a German submarine. "Tho auxiliary sank and a number of prisoners wero made, among whom was Sir Roger Casement." The news of the capture of Sir Roger was received with satisfaction, mingled with regret at tho termination termina-tion of what previous to his alleged activities with the Germans had been a brllllan career, useful both to hu inanity and his own country, inat he should have engaged in such a madcap enterprise as the British official offi-cial communication gives as the reason rea-son for his seizure, is considered as lending- color to the view held by his old friends here that he is mentally unbalanced. Little has been heard of Sir Roger in this country for many months. Last October a returned Irish prisoner reported re-ported that Sir Roger had visited the prison camp at Limburg and vainly tried to induce Irish prisoners to Join an Irish brigade he was said to bo raising in Germany to fight against England. It was reported a short time ago that Sir Roger had applied for citizenship in Bavaria. Later came a report from a neutral coun. try that ho had been arrested In Germany Ger-many on an unstated charge. Sir Roger Casement, before tho outbreak of tho European war was in the British consular service, having held posts in Portuguese West Africa, the Congo Free State, Haiti, San Do mingo and Brazil. In November. 1914, It was reported that Sir Roger, who was theMeador of SS separatist 'faction in Ireland had gone to Berlin and conferred with the German Imperial authorities, his in-tentfon. in-tentfon. It was said, being to open negotiations ne-gotiations between the German government gov-ernment and tho anti-English party in lF Assurances were said to have been given to Sir Roger that should the ?OPort. to give every md ".g mnna The report ot nls aciniut. to Germany created a sei.sal.on in ,0SrVoIern-atcd . ImW. t Jl mayo rubber fields. |