GERMAN PLOTTERS ARRESTED.
(Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.)
(Received May 2. 8.40 a. m.) NEW YORK, May 1. Two Germans who have been arrested carried a powerful bomb. They confessed they intended .to use it at the Stock Exchange to create a panic. (Received May 2. 9.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 1. The arrest of Wolf Hirsch, an ex-petty officer of the German Navy, has exposed a plot to destroy J. P. Morgan's Wall Street offices, cut telegraphs and 'Hephones, and to create a panic by the circulation of false accounts of a TJ-'v>at raid and tho assassination of the President. A bomb was found' m the possession of Hirsch, who confessed that he was implicated m the London and Petrograd plots.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14287, 2 May 1917, Page 3
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