THE BOMB PLOT.
HOW IT WAS UNEARTHED. LONDON. July 8. £ne Swedish Foreign Office, states a Copenhagen message, ha. ordered the prosecution of Baron von Rosen, leader of the bomb expedition to the Finnish ! f rontier a year ago. Baron von Rosen, who is an ex-officer of the Swedish Guards, was also concerned m the Christiania bomb plot. He has fled to Ger- j many. ' Details of the Christiania plot' show that a Finlander of good family transported the explosives' to the Scandinavian capitals, and was later appointed secretary at the plotters' headquarters at Stockholm.' The leader of the latter wa-^ a high-.placed German ex-officer receiving a big salary. The Finlander. tempted by. a large reward for the discovery of commerc-'al spies, revealed the names of the leading German agents. A trap was laid, and tbe Finlander, inventing a story about his ability to place infernal machines aboard a Wilson liner, obtained from the plotters two j.nf ern-al machines, and hadned them to the Allied Legation at Ohristiania. This led to the unearthing of the plot.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14354, 20 July 1917, Page 4
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