A GERMAN MYSTERY.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13738, 2 June 1913, Page 5

A GERMAN MYSTERY.

RUMOURED SABOTAGE ON THE

IMPERATOR

LIQUID CEMENT IN WATER PIPES

ANOTHER CRUISER AGROUND

(Received June 1, 5.5 p.m.)

Berlin, May 31

The Hamburg-Amerika liner Irnperator is lying on a desolate part of the coast near Cuxhaven. Mysterious rumours are afloat of costly carpets and furniture having been hacked, and liquid cement being poured into the water pipes and, allowed to harden, rendering the water system useless.

Two thousand workmen are on

board

It is suspected that the cruiser Bluocher grounded during a thick fog on tho Great Belt, and that German warships failed to pull her off.