CHRISTIAN BURIAL SIR,—Recently a request was made to the Irish
Gov- ernment by the British Government to permit the exhumation and reburial in consecrated ground of three British soldiers who lost their lives in Dublin, in the year 1916, in the Anglo-Irish struggle. The request was promptly and unconditionally granted.
I write to direct attention to a comparable state of affairs existing in London where an Irishman lost his life, for his part, on the Irish side, in the same struggle and in the same year. He is buried in Lon- don in unconsecrated ground.
It would be but a simple act of Christian charity. as well as a due return for the favour they received, if the British Government would now allow Chris- tian burial for the mortal remains of this Irishman, Roger Casement.
HERBERT 0. MACKEY
Mount Haigh House. Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
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