GERMAN BOMB PLOTS.
New York, April .13
Four employees' of the HamburgAmerika ' and' North German Lloyd shipping-lines have been "arrested, charged with being implicated in extensive bomb plots to destroy Allies' steamers. It has been discovered that Captain yon Papen left behind him a largo sum of money to continue bomb activities and the destruction of munition plants throughout -the - United States. . . -■ ■
Charles yon Kleist, Ernest Becker, Captain Otto Wolpert, and Captain Enno Bode, superintendent of the Ham-burg-Amerika Shipping Company's piers aiHoboken, have been arrested,, charged with having manufactured, fire bombs, to be placed in sugar bags on the steamer Kirk Oswald', of the Fabre line, on May 10th. The bombs were composed of chemicals intended to burst into flames when acted upon by the heat of the steamship's hold. Funds to manufacture the bombs were supplied by wealthy men whose names are not divulged. .
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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14153, 15 April 1916, Page 5
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145GERMAN BOMB PLOTS. Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14153, 15 April 1916, Page 5
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