GERMAN PLOT

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 February 1917, Page 6

GERMAN PLOT

TO DESTROY INTERNED Vessels. ; how the 1 order was deliver- .;"■ ' ' . ED. * '■/. [AUSTRALIAN AND N. ; Z. .CABLE ».BSOCIATfOW.] Receivell this day at 9.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, February 21. Honolulu advices indicate that the Genhriin population "fully expected the rupture with America..'. ve's; ! els are interned. . • According to statements by the of-? ficers-vof a' vessel; a plot wan- aVaqged, t> blow' them up. ' A wireless signal was agreed uppn, involving not only' the .vessels at Honolulu, but along the Pacific Coar,t. The mecsage wan'apparently harmless and read : "Do'you

waut stores?" b.ut to the, Germans: it meant: "Diplomaiio reunions aie ruptured.. Destroy the ships; 5 ' '■;

j.no order- wuo. executed "in Honolulu arid nix merchantirieh and the gunboat Grier we'rev 'quidkly ':fj\xi tiames. In eacn case the;-hiivy weve overcome, though the ' veissels were more or less daniagvu. 'i he iiiaclunjery was-jalao smashed. , . , _ The Honolulu State police, under .official 'instructions, assumed cciitiV/l of al| German officers and, (teamen, who are held safely in tlie immigration station.; ;['. r % y ~.. ,-\\ : GERMAN SPIES. SWARMS IN THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON February 20. Senator Overman states that'he has been informed that*there are 100,000 spies in the United States. ';; ;;.,■■" ■■■ ,'.• . ■ '■ '' ;■'-' i ■ *■:•'■■•,-:.- " ■';"•.. '■ 4