BRITISH ITEMS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15173, 11 January 1915, Page 7

BRITISH ITEMS.

SIR ROGER CASEMENT AND

THE ENEMY,

LONDON, January 9

Lord Crowe, replying to Lord Curzon, said severe penalties ought to bo inflicted upon Sir Roger Casement if the facts were as alleged.

According to on© of the daily wireless messages despatched from Berlin to the United States in. November, _>ir Roger Casement had called at the Foreign Office in Berlin and had drawn the attention of the-Acting-Secretary of

State to statements published in Ireland, apparently with the authority of th© British Government., to the effect that German victory "would inflict great loss upon the Irish people, whoso homes, churches, priests, and lands would be at the mercy cf an invading army, actuated only by motives of pillage and conquest." He was officially assured by the Imperial Chancellor that "the German Government repudiates' the evil intentions attributed to it. and only desire;- the welfare of the Irish people and country." These may be tbo facts alluded to in the above message.'

A Marconi wireless mes-.s-tge has been received from Austria, requesting information a> to the fate of imprisoned Austrians. If it is unsatisfactory Austria will alter her treatment of future prisoner*. 'Ihe Amalgamated Engineer*' Association has voted a sixpenny levy for Belgian trade-unionists.