THE ARRESTS OF THE BOMBPLOTTERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2752, 22 April 1916, Page 6

THE ARRESTS OF THE BOMBPLOTTERS

PROTEST BY BERNSTORFF. By Telegraph—Presa Association-Copyright Washington, April 19. Count Bernstorff has demanded the release of Wolfe von Igel, and also the restoration of the incriminating papers. The State Department has refused, contending that Von Igel was not a German Embassy official when he committed un-noutral acts. [Wolfe von Igel, formerly secretary to von Papen, was arrested after a fierce. struggle with detectives in von Papen's office in New York.] A LATTER-DAY DICK WHITTINGTON. THE LIONISING OF AUSTRALIA'S PRIME MINISTER. .London, April 19. The Manchester "Guardian states that the city honnurs bestowod on Mr. Hughes provide tne nearest equivalent to the Dick Whittington legend evor recorded. The difference was that this poor boy, who sought fame and position in a distant country, is hot returning to the fleshpots of the Guildhall, and going thence to settle down in ease and affluence, but his visit is only an incident in his career. He has been reecived as the leader of a great State and one of the forces of the Empire. A FACER FOR COUNT BERNSTORFF. (Rec. April 20, 0.55 p.m.) Washington, April 19. The documents in the case of von Igel disclose the connection of the Gorman Embassy at Washington with criminal plots against Canada, including the blowing up of the Welland Canal. , Count Bernstorff has demanded their return, but the State Department refuses to give them up unless he swears that they are Embassy This he cannot do, as lie would thereby implicate himself.