Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-26
JOHN DEVOY BACK
The letter follows in part:
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The letter follows in part:
"Dear friend:
81 avail myself OF the chance of our
friend returning to San Francisco, to
send you this letter by hand Nothing
is safe in the mails in this free country.
: "Our information as to what occur
red at home on the inside was very
meager up to couple of weeks ago.
Now, authentic accounts coming by
hand show us that we guessed pretty
accurately.
"The substance of it all is that be-
trayal of the information about the
shipload of arms by Wilson s men en-.
abled the English to catch the vessel
There is no doubt at all about this They
got in the raid on Won Igel S office
note of mine-the transcript Of a mes
sage received in cipher from Dublin and
wirelessed to Berlin the day before,
April IT, request not to land the arms
before the night of Sunday, 23rd'
That was its meaning but it used the
word goods. 1t was at once given to
the English and they sent out their pat
rol boats and caught the ship. Then
they sent troops to Tra1ee.
"That would not have spoiled the ris-
ing, because if they were in the field,
other shipments would have been sent.
Easement did the rest He landed on
Friday and sent message to Mcneil
to step it. that it was hopeless, etc.
Mcneil got it Saturday and issued his
couLternland.
From our experience Of a year Of
his Easement 50 utter impracicability,
we sent, with the first note from home
that VIC transmitted to Berlin a request
that Il >Casement) be asked to remain
there to take care of Irish interests
"We knew he would meddle in his
honest, but visionary way to such an
extent as to spoil things, but we did
not dream that he would ruin everything
as he has done.
'He. was obsessed with the idea that
he was a wonderful leader and that
nothing could be done without him. His
letters always kept me awake on the
night of the day got them.
cit is not true that the Germans
treated us badly; they did everything
we asked, but they were wearied of his
dreams and told us to deal
directly with them here He had no more
to do with getting that shipload than
the man III the moon. The request was
made from Dublin and we transmitted it
from here. They replied in nine days, !
and the message was sent to Dublin by
a girl who had brought out the request. +
"lIe (Casement) told everything to
every fellow who called on him. Chris
telsen, who saved him is one of
the worst crooks l ever met and was IN
the pay of the English all along. Case
ment was warned of that from Ireland
and the first thing he did was to tell
this fellow himself and to give him the
name of the man who had warned him.
Christensen was going over from here
TO testify against him-and incidentally
to give away all our secrets, that he
had got from Roger, but we kept him
here.
81 don't want you to tell any of this
I mean about Roger-to anyone ex-
,ept Father York, but the rest OF 1t
YOU can use your Judgment about.
eff that countermand had not been
issued they would have taken Dublin
and the big force that was concentrat-
ed on Dublin British forces) would
have had to be divided Ip.
"The turn over of the people to our
side. according to everybody, is aston
sbinq. The conversion to our side among
The priests is the most remarkable thing
1f all.
e'We have sent a good sum of money
for our work and it is already there. We
,xpeet to be in direct communication
with a reorganized S. G. or partly re-
one very soon. -,
'sOf course, lot of the future wlll
lanrnd IN the course of the war which IS
low going somewhat against us but
vbate.scr comes, the old Ireland IS
"With the few facts l have given
you iu your mind, you viii understand
-he situation better. Kind REGARDS u
Mrs L.. L. and to Father York.
'Yours truly,
"JOHN DEVOH."