SIR ROGER CASEMENT DESCRIBED AS A FANATIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16216, 29 April 1916, Page 7

SIR ROGER CASEMENT DESCRIBED AS A FANATIC.

PUBLIC MEN HAVE NO FEAR OF THE SITUATION.

AUSTRALIAN OPINION DEPLORES THE DISTURBANCES.

Melbourne, April 28.

His Excellency the Governor of South Australia, Sir Henry Galway, interviewed regarding the situation in Ireland, said that he had served in Southern Nigeria in the '00's with Sir Koger Casement, who was then under the Foreign Office. Casement was always regarded as a wild Irishman, although a charming fellow. He was a fanatic and would attempt anything. The Governor said he had no qualms about the situation, and thought the Government would possibly make short work of the malcontents. No doubt Sir Roger Casement's raid was timed to synchronise with a rising. The whole thing was the result of German intrigue. His Excellency says he knew no reason why Casement should be antagonistic to the British Government, He always had had good posts, and should have been the opposite, instead of turning on the country which had employed and trusted him. He was either mad or a traitor. If the former he ought to be put out of harm's way, and if a renegade there was only one way to deal with him. Dr. Carr, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, said it was possible the outbreak was meant to discredit the Nationalists almost as much as it was directed against the authority of the Crown. He regarded the disturbance as an outbreak of madness. The Irish Association of Queensland has sent a cable to Mr. Redmond and Mr. Asquith condemning and deploring the disturbances. RESPONSIBLE IRISH OPINION AGAINST THE REVOLT. OFFSET BY GALLANTRY OF THE IRISH REGIMENTS. London, April 27. In an interview in New York, Lord Aberdeen, ex-Viceroy of Ireland, predicted that the Irish disturbances would soon be suppressed. The main body of responsible Irish opinion was against it. Lord Aberdeen said ho believed that the outbreak would not cause any revulsion of English opinion against Ireland, nor influence the granting of Home Rule. The gallantry of the Irish regiments offset this rising. The London Times says: "The Germans always counted on an armed insurrection in Ireland, and have striven to provoke it since the beginning of the war. They have finally succeeded m getting their dupes to indulge in an insane rising. The raid on Lowestoft was evidently part of a combined movement.' The Manchester Guardian says 'German support appears to be behind the disturbance in Dublin. Monday's Zeppelin raid and the attack on Lowestoft were obviously related to the Dublin outbreak, the whole thing being intended to produce combined and cumulative terror." The Westminster Gazette says the exploit of the members of the Sinn Fein and tho capture of Sir Roger Casement look at present like a mere parody, on a Teutonic, dream of an Irish rebellion..