BOMBS ON LUSITANIA
FORESTALLED BY TORPEDO.
DID BERNSTORFF KNOW ?
NEW YORK. October 12. A German lawyer named llsen has formed the police that he learned that bombs, timed to explode near the Irish ! coast, had been placed aboard the Lusitania before she sailed the last time, but the vessel was torpedoed before the bombs exploded. llsen says he was in the office ol a German lawyer named Sehininiel, who i* now in Germany, when it was learned that the Lusitania had been toriedoed. Sehimmel shouted: "Kool, .he lias ruined by work. The bombs would have destroyed her." Officials are trying to establish whether Count Bernstorfl". the then German Ambassador to the Cnited states, knew of the bombs when he published a warning to passengers nut to travel in the Lusitania.— (Renter!
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 245, 13 October 1917, Page 5
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