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From the depths of the U-19 a collapsible canvas rowboat was produced. The tall gaunt man and two Irish companions stepped into it and commenced to row ashore. The commander of the submarine called after them, "Sir Roger Casement! Is there nothing more that you require...
...handsome green uniforms with harps worked in embroidery on the collar. Now the Germans, having partly lost faith in him, were insisting that he prove his own loyalty to them by landing in Ireland and directing a revolt, to be supported by smuggled German arms. To Sir Roger Casement, strange, brilliant, unbalanced adventurer, it seemed that his chances, even of life, were slim enough. Jauntily he called back toward the U-719, "I need nothing, Herr Kapitan, except my shroud...
...seized him. For months Mr. Basil Thomson, Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, had been waiting for Sir Roger to appear. During the course of the trial before Lord Chief Justice Reading,* Mr. Thomson was not only instrumental in securing the conviction and subsequent execution of Sir Roger Casement, but rose to such prominence himself that he was knighted, and then made Director of Intelligence of the British secret service. Since that day he has been a symbol to Britons of the maintenance of law and order at any cost. Ecclesiastics have pointed with pride to the fact that...
Presently a taxi drove through the mob. Out sprang two officers of the law, ran up the Cathedral steps, pounded A woman thrust her head from an upper casement, shrilled, withdrew. The mob laughed, having often during the past month seen the woman in the Bishop's house...
...Casement, who certainly has no reason to love the English, described the depths to which Ireland has sunk since the establishment of the Free State with horror; Ireland's former troubles seem like pale grievances. Mr. Ervine, traveling between Kingston and Cork, said he discovered among the people "bitterness of disillusion, great discontent, deep pessimism about the future, frequent lament over the departure of the British." Dillon declared expressively: "The old Irish Party has been accused of bossing, but, my God! I never thought that I would live to see what is taking place today under an Irish Government...