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Show LIBEL SUIT BROUGHT BY CORRESPONDENT Berlin, May 22. A libel action has been begun by Seymour B. Conger, Berlin correspondent of The Associated Associat-ed Press against Edwin A. Emerson, an American newspaper correspond- J ent, now in Berlin, based on an ar- 1 tlcle by Emerson In the Continental Times, a newspaper published here in the English language. The article Intimates that Mr. Conger and Ambassador Ambas-sador Gerard "were responsible for "the betrayal" of Sir Roger Casement J to the British. The article insinuates that Mr. Conger received knowledge j of Casement's plans which he com- I municated to Ambassador Gerard who j In turn cabled It to Washington from I whero It was transmitted as a warn- I Ing to London. I Mr. Conger enters a general denial 1 1 of-the insinuations made in the-ar- ! tide in the Continental Times and states his first knowledge that an-thing an-thing was Impending In Ireland came to him two days subsequent to the outbreak " |