ALLEGED KIDNAPPING CONSPIRACY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 15 February 1915, Page 5

ALLEGED KIDNAPPING CONSPIRACY

SIR ROGER CASEMENT AGAIN. (Received Feb. 15, 9.20 a.m.) i.. ..■/..,_„ AMSTERDAM,. Feb., 14., ' Sir Roger Casement, in a communication to the newspapers,-, .accuses Mr. M. do C Findlay, British Minister' in of a .conspiracy to kidnap, him.* He shows what purports to be a photographic copy of a letter, wherein Mr Findlay, in his own handwriting, on feehalf .of the ..British, Government, promises Sir Roger's manservant, Christerison, a Norwegian, £SOOO in the event, of the capture of Sir Roger. Sir Roger says Christensen declares that Mr Findlay' urged him tolure.Sir Boffer;to the; coast, where a British ship could seize him ; or, better still, to knock him ,on the head. Christensen was in possessicnv of a key of the back door.of the .Christiania. legation, enabling him to enter unobserved during 'the negotiations in.October,:;when Sir Roger was in Christiania. Sir Roger asks for. Not way's protection in view.'of his proceeding to Norway and submitting proofs. *

■(lt was reported some time ago .that Sir -Roger 'Casement hail conferred with the authorities in Berlin with regard to ihe future of Ireland in the event of the Kaiser's troops invading (Britain. The Irish National Party, .entirely repudiated Sir Roger, and Sir A. 'Conan :t)oyle charitably suggested in .the papers that the errand of Sir Roger to Berlin'was the act of a man whose mind was temporarily'unhinged after 20 years' arduoiis and trying labours in the tropics.) I j I |