SUBMARINE MINE OF ENEMY ORIGIN.
EXPLODED ON AUSTRALIAN COAST. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Received October 13, 12.40 p.m, MELBOURNE, Oct. 13. Mr Cook has officially announced that minesweepers from Sydney exploded a submarine mine of enemy origin off Gabo on Wednesday. BOMBS ON THE LUSITANIA. Australian-New Zealand Cable- Association. NEW YORK, Oct. 12. Ilscn, a German lawyer, has informed the police that he has learned that bombs were placed aboard the Lusitania timed to explode near the Irish coast, but the vessel was torpedoed before tho bombs exploded, lie says ho was in (ho oflico of Schimmel, a German lawyer now in Germany, when the Lusitania was torpedoed. Schimmel shouted: “Tho fool has ruined my work; the bombs would have destroyed her Officials aro trying to establish whether BornstorfT know of tho bombs when be published the warning to passengers not to travel in the Lusitania.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10106, 13 October 1917, Page 5
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