GERMAN WOOL PLOT IN NEW YORK.
"■'■'■ NE(W YORK, March 14. t^Vn investigation to; determine whether! certain American wool /manufacturers have been parties to il German plot to corner the World's wool markpt ; will begin here to-morrow under tljie, direction of Merton E. Lewis, Attorney-General for, New Yprk State. . . ...'■"• .A The -riVVeltigation regulted from a perusal of papers bSgnging >to , Hugo Schmidt, .a; $ew York Ranker,, now "Jnt-rned as an enemy t alien;; ..Schmidt] was the so-called "paymaster.* : in ■:. this oountry for 8010 Pasha, noW under sentence of death for treason m France (since, executed). , . ..,.•■ •.'»*' ..Eugene Schwerdt, a wealthy wool riierchan-ji. 0(f New York ahd "Boston, was arrested here February 25 m,, connection wjfch tihe wool-hoarding plan; , He„ is to be in^nied. . . , v ,^ , ; t •.< A
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14589, 26 April 1918, Page 3
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124GERMAN WOOL PLOT IN NEW YORK. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14589, 26 April 1918, Page 3
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