FINNISH BOMB PLOT.
FURTHER ARRESTS MADE.
CHARGES OF ESPIONAGE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rood. 9.40 p.m.) LONDON. August 14. The Christiania newspaper Tidens Tegn states that as a result of the investigation of the Finnish bomb plot the Government is prosecuting seven Finns and two Germans, all of whom were in the pay of the German espionage headquarters at Stockholm. Accused are charged with espionage, also with transporting many trunks of explosives from Germany to Norway.
Two Finns, Handvik and Handstroem, were arrested at Christiania, the capital of Norway, last month, charged with being implicated in a plot in 1916 to destroy railway badges and hamper transport in Finland. Baron Hautenfels, who was recently arrested in Norway as the leader of a German bomb plot, supplied them with bombs resembling bricks, and they went to Vardo Harbour, in Norway, in December to try to blow up ships conveying goods to Russia. In April they went to a Finnish port on a similar mission against Norwegian and British traffic t) Russia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16619, 16 August 1917, Page 5
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