In the circumstances no other course was open to the Government if useless bloodshed was to be avoided and its duty to its allies fulfilled but to intern the authors and abettors of this criminal intrigue. LANDING FROM SUBMARINE On June 10 it was announced that the man who was put ashore on the west coast of Ireland from a German submarine on April 12, 1918, and who is now a prisoner in the Tower of London, was Lance Corporal J. Dowling of the Connaught Rangers. The collapsible boat in which Dowling was landed was made of canvas with a bottom of twenty-three wooden slats, each four inches wide, making the boat about eight feet long and two feet wide. The canvas sides, about twenty inches high, had an inner lining rubber fabric, to be blown up from a valve at the rear to give the boat buoyancy. There were loops along the sides in which short wooden braces or struts kept the boat from collapsing. The whole craft when rolled up weighed less than forty pounds. When the buoyancy chambers were pumped full of air the boat would easily support three men. No effort had been made up to June 20 to put into execution the conscription law in Ireland, notwithstanding there had been a very meagre response to the call for volunteer enlistments. Ireland's Food Shipments to England A Limerick correspondent of The London Telegraph, on May 15, 1918, sent that newspaper the following table of Irish food exports to England, with other information not before made public: _Values of Foodstuffs Imported Into and Retained for Consumption in Great Britain from Undermentioned Countries. (Figures for 1917 are not available.)_ 1912. 1913. 1914. 1915. 1916. Millions Millions Millions Millions Millions £ £ £ £ £ Ireland 30 36 37 46 59 United States 30 30 42 82 116 Argentina 31 31 27 46 36 Canada 18 19 23 27 41 British India 22 17 13 22 20 Denmark 20 22 23 20 20 New Zealand 9 9 11 16 18 Netherlands 14 16 17 14 13 Australia 13 15 16 12 10 Russia 17 15 13 8 1 This shows that for years Ireland's food supply to Great Britain was only exceeded by that of the United States of America, whose people, now fighting with us, probably will want more in future for themselves. As regards the quantities of foodstuffs exported to Great Britain from Ireland, the following table speaks: