13 JULY 1918, Page 3

Lance-Corporal Joseph Dowling, of the Connaught Rangers, who was landed

from a German submarine on the West Coast of Ireland in April last, was tried. by Court-Martial at Westminster on Monday and Tuesday. It was btated in evidence that Dowling was one of the few Irish prisoners at Limburg in the winter of 1914-15 who yielded to the seductions of Casement and joined the German Irish Brigade. Some of his fellow-prisoners, since released, declared that they had beaten the traitor, and that they wore punished for refusing to betray their country as Dowling had done. The accused man pleaded not guilty, but declined to give evidence. The finding of the Court-Martial will be announced hereafter.