SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA
SORE REVELATIONS. ; VESSEL USDER TWO BOOMS. (Received Saturday, 1.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 12. Ilson, a German lawyer, has informed the police that he has Yearned that bombs wore placed aboard the Lusitania timed to explode near the Irish Coast, but the vessel was torpedoed before the bombs exploded. llaon says he was in the office of Schimmel, a German lawyer now in Germany. When the Lusitania was torpedoed, Schimmel shouted: “The fool has ruined my work; the bombs would have destroyed her!”
Officials are trying to establish whether Bernstorff knew of the bombs when he published the warning to passengers not to travel in the Lusitania.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11367, 13 October 1917, Page 5
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111SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11367, 13 October 1917, Page 5
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