PLOT TO BLOW UP LINER
JAPANESE VESSEL AT SEATTLE POLICE ARREST CANADIAN AT DOCK tCXITID PHKSS ASSOCIATIOH—COPTKIQHT.J (Received January 21, 10 p.m.) SEATTLE, January 20. The disclosure of a plot to bomb the Japanese liner Hiye Maru caused the vessel to be moved hastily from its moorings at the Great Northern Dock here. The nude body of a man, believed to be a Canadian, was found supported by a life-preserver in the water near the ship. His companion, who was arrested on the pier, revealed that he and the dead man planned to blow up the vessel with a time bomb attached to the hull. The prisoner gave his name as George Partridge, of Vancouver. He said the bomb failed to explode. The dead man was Ralph Forsythe, a graduate and former instructor at the University of British Columbia.
Partridge's brother, who was arrested at Vancouver, said: "My brother and Forsythe had an agreement with the Chinese to sink any vessels carrying iron or other material to Japan. If the first attempt was successful a financial arrangement was to be completed."
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22307, 22 January 1938, Page 13
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