PLOT AT HONOLULU

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 46, 22 February 1917, Page 7

PLOT AT HONOLULU

TO DESTROY GERMAN VESSELS

OFFICERS AND SEAMEN IN' SAFE-

KEEPING.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)

(Received February 22, 9 a.m.)

SYDNEY, This. Day.

Advices from Honolulu indicate that the German population there fully expected a rupture with America. There are eight German vessels interned there, and, according to statements by officers of a vessel, a plot had been arranged to blow them up. A wireless signal' had been agreed upon, involving not only the vessels at Honolulu, but along the Pacific coast. The message was apparently harmless, and read "Do you want stores?" but to the .Germans it meant "Diplomatic relations ruptured ; destroy ships." The order was promptly executed.

At Honolulu six merchantmen and the gunboat Geier were quickly in Hames, but in each ease the fires were overcome, though the vesesels were more or less damaged. The machinery was also smashed, f Honolulu states.that the police, under ofticial instructions assumed control of all German officers and seamen, who are held safely at the immigration station.