GERMAN VILLAINY IN AMERICA.
MORE STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS
A WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY.
Received Oct. 27, 11 a m. New York, Oct. 26,
' Further startling developments have been discovered in the bomb conspiracy. The police are seeking for a man named Breitung, secretary and treasurer of the Oil Well Supply Company, who is accused of furnishing the* bulk of thirty thousand dollars, recently spent by Fay, The police are investigating Breitling’s supposed relationship withßreitung, the Dacia’s purchaser. Dr. Heinze and Paul Baeche have also been arrested for conspiracy. Flynn, head of the Federal Secret Service, declares that Breitung and Fay paid Paul Seibe for the purchase of explosives. Seibe formerly a German soldier bufVill be a Government witness.
Scholz confessed that he and Fay tested explosives and made nines and had almost perfected their exploding apparatus when arrested. He denies that any loaded mines had been attached to any ship. Scholz believes that Fay received four thousand dollars from the German Government. It is officially stated that Fay confessed that the German Secret Service sent him to the United States after he had exhibited his exploding invention.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
London, Oct. 25
It is doubtful whether Mr Asquith will he sufficiently well to attend the House of Commons before Thursday. It is expected the Lords will debate the Salonika landing.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11408, 27 October 1915, Page 5
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217GERMAN VILLAINY IN AMERICA. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11408, 27 October 1915, Page 5
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