CASEMENT'S "IRISH BRIGADE"

Evening Star, Issue 16782, 10 July 1918, Page 4

CASEMENT'S "IRISH BRIGADE"

IN GERMAN PRISON CAMP. EX-CONNAUGHT RANGER COURT MARTIALLED. CAPTURED IN IRELAND, AFTER LANDING FROM U BOAT. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, LONDON, July S: 'Hie court martial of Lance-corporal Dowlinsr has opened. He is charced that, while being a, prisoner of war at lAr.iburtilahn Camp, ho voluntarily served in an Irish brigade formed and maintained by the German Government. He is also char.'ed with endeavoring to- persuade other prisoners to join. Finally, he took a- certain coarse with the enemy naval forces, and landedjvi Ireland. * Sir A. Bodkin, Iv.C. prosecuting conn-s-si, said the prisoner in 1907 was transferred from the Con-naught Rangers to the reserve. He was called up at the outbreak of the war. PTe accompanied the original expeditionary force into Franco, and was taken prisoner. The Germans planned to concentrate the Irish prisoners at Limberglahn. and there were 2,000 there at the end of December, 1914.. Thev were well treated. The prisoner and three other?.— Quinless, Keogh, and Bailey—stood out prominently among the prisoners. Quinless. Keogh. and Dowling seemed to be actinij together in concert with Casement. Counsel said the prisoner explained that he was washed ashore on the coast of Ireland from a torpedoed vessel. Dowlin-; went f:o a- bank, and changed £3l. in silver into Trish. notes. There was little doubt that he was allowed to come over to participate in an armed rebellion in Ireland. Howling is a slight, pale-fared youth in civilian clothes. He was attended by a guard with a loaded revolver. The accused seemed very nervous. The first witness was Oonrn, a- -returned prisoner from Germany, who deseribed Dowlivvfi's activities to get men to io'm the Irish Brigade. He wore a so-called Irish uniform, with shamrock badges. On one occasion British prisoners set on Dowling and called him a traitor.