The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-08
GERMANY SENT BASEMENT TO
 BRITISH PRISON
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 Sir Roger Easement knew it, too. at the end.
 At first he was blind to what was going on. But just before he started for Ireland he knew just what fate was awaiting him. He realized to the full that he had been hoodwinked and now he was to be betrayed. Be- cause he knew it he first contemplat ed suicide. But he rejected this means as cCwardly. He was virtually a Ger man prisoner watched day and night. He could not avoid the summons And so he went boldly to his fate. Sir Roger spent the last hours of his stay in Germany in compiling a complete and minute account of all he did there of his conversations with the German foreign office, of his req sons for going, in fact everything that would preserve for poster1ty the re- cord of his associations in Germany: At the midnight of his last day in Germany he went to the home of an English woman in Berlin, member of one of the great families of Eng land, who had married distinguish ed German diplomat.
 | Naturally the Sympathies of this woman were with England, despite | her marriage. Unlike some other l English and American wives of Ger mans who became more German than | he Germans themselves she never l disguised the fact in private at least, l that she hoped England would win 1 the war
 Promised to Publish. | Sir Roger Easement delivered his personal records into her hands. She agreed to keep them safe and Sir Roger obtained her promise that af- 1 ter his death, which he knew was near. she would publish them to the | world.
 These records are now in England.
 His conidant is to keep her prom
 4T,,
 ise- They will be published shortly l by a committee of men in England
 who still refuse to consider Sir Rog- 1 CT Easement the traitor that the yer
 dict o the court said he was
 i When these documents are publish
 ed the world will learn Sir Roger Easements side of the story.
 l What was the verdict of the Allied | world upon Sir Roer Easement? In | brief it was as follows: He was a II Sim Feiner and went to Germany as a Sim Fein envoy to make plans fol II a German invasion of Ireland to be
 aided by a simultaneous Sim F,eir
 uprising; that he accep ed lare sums
 cf money from the Germans to aid | their propa ganda in Ireland and Amer | ica: that he induced Irish soldiers | prisoners of the Germans, to forsweal
 their allegiance and enlist in tht Ii German army; that he went to Ire II land on a ship loaded with arms anC i ammunition for Sim Fein: hat he carried complete plans for the coop eration between the German navy which was to land forces, and Sim ] Fein which was to start the rebellior simultaneously.
 Never Sim Feiner. Sir Roger Easement was not a Sim Feiner. He never at any time hat any connection whatever with Sim F'ein. De Valera, for instance, knev Easement but slightly. Certainly Sim F'ein did not send Easement to Ger many or even know of his intention to go Sir Roger knew Arthur Grif a filth the founder of Sim Fein, quit [ well and contributed to his newspa per, but was not member or ever . actively interested in Sim Fein.
 Whatever he did, he played a lon
 hand He was a free lance, genera
 without an army, a leader who hal
 no followers. because he never inter
 ested himself in any projects callin
 Cor organizations. He went to German
 lon his own"
 Sir Roger Easement never accept
 ed penny from the Germany gov |. ernment or any German citizer
 Among his papers is not alone al , affidavit to that effect, but a state ;, ment telling how he determined no | to accept any such help from Ger . many for himself or for Ireland. r In consequence he often roame' V the streets penniless and hungry s when both cash and food could hay S0been his for the asking. Some Amer
 jeans in Germany and some Englis