NEW YORK HUNS ROUNDED UP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14439, 27 October 1917, Page 4

NEW YORK HUNS ROUNDED UP

NEW YORK, Sept. 27. .; What is believed to have been a plot to blpw. up munition plants and destroy .machinery ■ which is being manufactured .for war purposes, was blocked ,heVfi today when the^police completed a wholesale round-up of , German aliens., .Ninety .were arrested, mostly .skilled .mecjianict employed, Ui plants working .on Goy.emment .gontractg. More .than. 100' \yjll be brqught ,to police headquarters by flight, it was announced. More than 200 police were engaged m tlie round-up. "Valuable material to the.Navy, De> partment was found m their possession ,'; : said Thomas J. Tunney, chief of the bomb squad of., detectives. "Blue prints, charts, maps and other documents and a collection of revolvers was confiscated." . .

Large quantities of carborundum was found m the possession of one man employed'in a plant where machirieVy for the nayy is being manufactured. A small amount of this when' putin the finer parts of a machine will completely disable it. ' . ' ' ,

"W e believe," said Captain Turiney, "that he receives his supply from; a German agent who was arrested m Christiania,Norwky.V\ ' '" ''' ! ' '" '. The men taken into custody have been shadovtjed by., ,deetctiyes /lor . Several months' at the reqiiest of the Nayy T)epartmerit. 'It-w&s that ".many of those arrestes w£re., working together and had effected an' organisation. : ! , Among- those caught, was' Heinridi Wettenhahh,' forrtier wireless •operator' on tlie German steamer^ Friedricli cler GrosseV; ... - r"' ' "''\ ■■■"■"■-'■ n ." , Guarded by a large force of Federal officers, the Germans were this morning | taken Jbo Ellis. lsland They were^- transported to the piers m patrol waggons;, heavily guarded. liater,F,ederf»l; 'charges may be filed .against; i^^yujuais .suspected, of .made actual '[ attempts '.,' to- , damage ma - or: pther yvfee interfere . ja?ith Government „ " wor}c,. , In , the .meantime, blue prints and ..jriap^. confiscated^ ..wjtyen \ithe G^rnjans were' seized yrill, be ."carefully examined. arrests may be made to-night. „*, ■■ 7•. ./• '■*.■"- s :,-.i'.' •..---. ' 'bound-up at cbigago. -... .-..CHICAGO, September 27. J. • J. ; : -Bradley, ichiefv^of 'the' United States Marshal's office Wre^ to-day began grounding, up < alien -enemies ■■; m; Chicago who have failed . to ; obtain per-! j mission to enter barred zones. He said about half of the 15,000 here were not registered. ' • : ~~ ••- M ' ' \i