Bailey, who said that ho had joined the " Irish
Brigade " as a means of escaping from imprisonment, described the journey to Ireland in company with Casement and a man called Monteith, vim is said to be still at large. On April 11th, after staying together at the Saxonia Hotel in Berlin, they were given tickets to Wilhelms- haven. At Wilhelmshaven they were put on board a submarine, which went round the North of Scotland and reached the coast of Kerry on April 20th. Tho evidence about the German vessel And '—a captured Wilson liner—which accompanied the sub- marine and carried about twenty thousand rifles, ammunition, and acme machine guns, was new. The ' And' flew the Norwegian Lag and was painted with the Norwegian emblems. When stopped by the ' Bluebell ' with a shot across her bows, she said she was bound to Genoa with timber. She was ordered to follow the ` Bluebell ' to Queenstown. Before entering the harbour she either scuttled herself or blew herself up and sank.
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