TRIAL OF CASEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16268, 29 June 1916, Page 7

TRIAL OF CASEMENT.

EVIDENCE FOR THE CROWN.

MOTION TO QUASH TRIAL.

ACT OUTSIDE THE REALM.

. LONDON. JUNE 27. The trial of Sir Roger Casement and Private Bailey, on charges of high treason, was continued to-day. John McCarthy, an Irish farmer living close to the spot where Casement is supposed to have come [ ashore from the German submarine, deposed to finding on Good Friday morning a boat washed up on the beach. Explaining why he was walking on the seashore at two o'clock in the morning, the witness said he had gone to a holy well to say a few prayers on Good Friday morning. He admitted that he had never prayed there before. Sergeant Hearn, of the Irish Constabulary, gave evidence as to getting possession of the articles found in the sand by McCarthy, including ammunition and pistols. Replying to counsel, witness said that owing to the great importation of arms in the North of Ireland the people of the South of Ireland armed themselves openly, partly against the Ulstermen and partly'to resist conscription. , Sir Frederick Smith, AttorneyGeneral, who conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Government, read documents that had been issued appealing to the Irish prisoners at Limberg camp in Germany to join the Irish Brigade, which it was alleged Casement tried to form. The case for the prosecution then closed. , Mr. Sullivan, counsel for Casement, moved to quash the trial, contending that it had never been decided that the Statute constituting high treason an offence within the realm should be extended to an offence committed outside the realm. The Chief Jusice said he believed there was authority for the proposition that a man outside the realm might be excused for what would be treason if he committed it in fear of death. He thought the law had always drawn that distinction. It seemed strange that an act abroad should not be treason against the King when the same thing would be treason at home. Mr. Justice Horridge said it seemed ridiculous to suggest that there could not be such a thing as, treachery outside the realm. CLAIMS OF THE TURKS. \ \ SUCCESS IN PERSIA. RUSSIANS IN FLIGHT. AMSTERDAM. JUNK 27. A Turkish communique states:— " We obtained successes against the Russians in Southern Persia, where the Russians evacuated hilar*. The Russians on the Caucasus front, after the defeat on the Chokokh River,_ are fleeing towards the coast." The Chorobh Der© rises a few miles east of Trebizond, and flows parallel to the coast for some distance before entering the Black Sea, three miles west of Batum, in Russia. LOSSES AT VERDUN, THE GERMAN ESTIMATE. ENEMY ADMITS 170,000. AMSTERDAM. JUNE 26. High German diplomatists are rel ported to have estimated the losses at Verdun at 170,000. \ i A semi-official French estimate of June 19 last, based on prisoners' statements and documentary evidence, placed the German losses at Verdun to the end of May at 415,000. NEW ZEALAND WOUNDED. LONDON. JUNE 27. The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, spent the week-end visiting wounded men in hospital in the Midlands. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS NO PLACE IN INDIA. LONDON. JUNE 27. The Government has accepted a proposal to render conscientious' objectors ineligible for the Indian Civil Service*