Letter from Roger Casement (U.S. Consulate General, Munich) to Captain Hans Boehm, referring to enclosed letters from the three corporals at the Limburg camp.

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c/o USA Consulate General Munich 3 July 1915 Dear Captain Boehm, I send you copies of parts of letters I got today from the three Corporals at Limburg.

I would beg you to lay them before the Officer in the General Staff charged with the matter. The two men, Kavanagh and Sewell should not have

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for, believe me it is the only thing to do.

No public announcement need be made, but the men should be put into uniform without delay and then we can look forward to action in U.S.A. and, I hope, to further recruits at Limburg.

But if this is not done I see only a triumph

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been left there for a month after they volunteered for The Brigade - and now one poor chap gets his leg broken (by treachery) as a consequence!

Unless a decision is come to very quickly to clothe the men at Zossen in uniform &c &c as agreed on I must confess I see no hope of any

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progress, either here or in America. In the latter country the effect or failure in this matter will be disastrous in the extreme - more so than is perhaps realized at the general staff here.

I trust no further time will be lost in carrying out the promises made to the men who have already volunteered -

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2 for the Enemy, who will deride the effort made and claim its failure as a proof of our "bad faith" &c. &c. &c.

In haste to catch the post,

Yours very sincerely, Roger Casement