SABOTAGE ON CRUISES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22751, 11 December 1935, Page 9

SABOTAGE ON CRUISES

NUT PLACED IN MACHINERY BOSTON, December 9. The newspaper the Evening American stated to-day that an act of sabotage last Saturday ruined the turbine gears of the new navy cruiser Quincy being built at the Fore River shipyards. The damage totalled 100,000 dollars. The sabotage consisted of the deliberate placing of a loose steel nut in such a position that the vibration caused by starting the electrical machinery dropped it into the revolving mechanism. An investigation disclosed that the nut was of a type not used aboard the vessel. The incident followed last summer's disastrous fire on the same vessel, which destroyed the wiring of the main switchboard. CASES ON BRITISH VESSELS LONDON, December 10. (Received Dee. 10, at 9 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph says: "Following alleged, sabotage on the Royal Oak, similar malicious cases have been reported aboard warships in other dockyards. It is believed that the damage was intended as a demonstration rather than an attempt to interfere with the working of the ships. Inquiries have reduced the suspects to four. The authorities are also giving attention to leakage of confidential information."