WARTIME INCIDENT.
AN ALLEGED ADMISSION. NEW YORK, April 7. It is learned that Mr James Larkin, the Irish Labour leader, made an affidavit admitting advance knowledge of the Black Tom explosion in June, 1916 in which four were killed, 100 injured, and millions of dollars’ worth of property damage done. The affidavit has been filed. with the German-Americau Mixed Claims Commission at Washington. It charges German spies with being responsible for the explosion. Larkin’s information will probably cause a reopening of tbe suit for 40,000,000 dollars damages against the German Government.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 9 April 1934, Page 7
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91WARTIME INCIDENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 9 April 1934, Page 7
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