BOMB PLOTS IN NEW YORK.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 81, 5 April 1916, Page 2

BOMB PLOTS IN NEW YORK.

POLICE MEASURES TO PROTECT

CRUISER

NEW YORK, Feb. 7

While amicable negotiations between Count Bernstorff, the German Ambassador at Washington, ana President Wilson continue, New York's police yesterday took extraordinary and unprecedented precautionary measures to prevent supposed German sympathisers blowing up the cruiser "Washington, on her way from the quarantine station to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. To reach the Navy Yard' the Washington was compelled to pass up the East river beneath the famous Brooklyn bridge and the newer Manhattan bridge. The police practicably took charge of the bridges, watching every' passerby, and- permitting nobody xv loiter while the -Washington was passing.

■Everybody concerned maintains the utmost reticence, but the newspapers say that New York has had its first taste of, martial law. Extra police were also stationed on the under-

J ground and elevated railway stations, i examining everybody with, bundles, evidently following a clue that the plotters were using one of these means to reach tho bridges.