UNITED STATES.
GERMAN PLOTS. VON iPAPEN INDICTED. Received April IS, 5 5 p.m. Washington, April 17. The Federal jury returned indictments against Captain von Papen, accusing him of participation in the conspiracy to blow up the Welland Canal in Canada. Captain Hans Toucher and others were also indicted in connection with the same plot', SEAMEN DEMAND HIGHER WAGES. New York, April 17. Sailings of vessels on the Atlantic seaboard are delayed by the demands formulated by the International Seamen's Union, which claim increases in the monthly rates, besides the special 25 per cent, increase for war risk runs, to be applicable to all classes of sailormen in the European war Zone. 'BEEF PACKERS SMOOTHED OVER. London, April 17. The Daily Mail's New York correspondent savs the settlement with the beef packer" been received with great satisfaction, jud is regarded as proof of British tair play. It lias removed the resentment at the British blockade, and it is safe to say that the danger of strained relations from the British exercise of sea power is over,
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1916, Page 5
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