BOMBS IN SWISS TRAINS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14516, 30 January 1918, Page 6

BOMBS IN SWISS TRAINS.

PLOT TO DESTROY LINES AND STATIONS.

GERMANS IMPLICATED. PARIS, Nov. 27. A special telegram to the Matin from its Zurich correspondent, says : — i telegraphed last Saturday that two bombs hud been found, charged with lyddite. An investigation opened by the police at Zurich is still proceeding. Another bomb discovery has been made of a still greater character, . as it reveals the existence of a plot aiming at the destruction of certain railway stations and lines in Switzerland. This sensational news, which the papers had hitherto concealed from their readers, ; s now made public by the Zurich Socialist organ, the Volksrecht. This paper declares that at the end of last week a large quantity pf bombs, containing ether and petrol, the explosion of which would have sufficed to blow to pieces an entire district, was found in a passenger train travelling between Zurich and Schaffhouse, the border town on thel German-Swiss frontier. j A complaint has been lodged against* a man whose name is not mentioned, ' and who is charged with manufacturing | bombs, which were afterwards concealed* in an empty house. The person lodging this complaint has submitted to the authorities two pf the bombs, as proof of his allegations. Furthermore, it would' appear that, following the inquiry made after the serious disturbances at Zurich and the discovery of the first two bombs, the police made several arrests, which revealed the existence of a regular organisation oi espionage in the Swiss-German capital. The Volksrecht, after recalling " a similar affair discovered a few months i ngo at- Lugano, in which the ex-German Consul was implicated, says : "We have here to deal with a oriminal organisation which aims at the carrying out of a whole series of murders, not only in the city of Zurich hut on the railways. ! With what object, and why at this particular moment? There is also reason to believe* that on the occasion of the sanguinary outbreak on November 17* certain police instigators took part. This belief is strengthened by the fact that the search warrants and arrests made have led to the discovery of a frp*=h hotbed of espionage in connection with which further search warrants have been effected in Paris and Geneva, the results of which are as yet unknown." PAEIS, Nov' 27. The Petit Parisien publishes an interview with a magistrate who .has arrived from Switzerland, who gives some details of tbe German organisation in Switzerland, aiming at weakening the moral of the Allies by means of the "defeatist" campaign. . "It. was at Rerne," said the magistrate, "that the defeatist manoeuvre which led to the retreat of the Italian armies was prepared. It is also there j that new plots are beintj organised at! the present moment, a fact which for-l tunately is known to the Allies."