BOMBS IN AMERICA
GERMAN PLOTTERS CONFESS. (Australian" and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Mar 2, 9.53 a.m. NEW YORK, May 1. Two Germans arrested carried a powerful bomb. They confessed that they intended to use it in the Stock Exchange to create a panic. EX-GERMAN OFFICER ARRESTED.
WELL PLANNED PLOT REVEALED
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Mav 2. 10.55 a.m. NEW YORK, May 1
The arrest of Wolf Hirseh, an expetty officer of the German Navy, exposed a plot to destroy Mr J. Pierpont Morgan's Wall Street Office, cut the telegraphs' and telephones, and create a panic by circulating false accounts of U boat raids, and the assassination of the President.
A homh was found in the possession of Hirseh, who confessed that he was implicated in plots in London and Tctrograd.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13473, 2 May 1917, Page 5
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