Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-28 | Page 6 | Ship Officers Are Seized as Hun Plotters

J Jf I f SHIP OFFICERS 1 i t ii ARE SEIZED AS HUN PLOTTERS I Ammunition Ammu Attempted J to Supply gi ft on to Germans in the South Is Allegation A Pacific Port Feb Tile Thc 27 The captain cap cap- taro tain ln chief chlo engineer and find purser of ot the were ordered arrested ar- ar rested today b by federal authorities it was announced after an Investigation In j of or an alleged pro-German pro plot to sup eup- supply ply Germans in lower California and South and Central America and allegations allega allega- that the men uttered pro German sentiments and attempted to obstruct o operation of or the selective draft The Centralia has been held In port nearly while the authorities in investigated In- In reports that the tho men took supplies to Germans interned at Santa Rosalia Rosalla Lower California and that explosives ex- ex plosives cs Were ere taken to various points in Central and South America under o suspicious auspIcious circumstances nce The men ordered arrest arrested d were John master of the Centralia H H. chief engin engineer cr J. J Ortez Or- Or lez purser It Jt t also lIEO was alleged b by federal author author- authorities HItS that the thc men tried to Induce Americans subject t to draft who were returning to the d States volun volun- voluntarily voluntarilY voluntarily on the vessel essel to refuse e to serve ser The charges against tho men were made b by some of or twenty three AmelI Amor Amel I n on board as aa soon noon as ns the vessel hero here from southern waters vaters The Tho Centralia Is owned b by the Pollard Steamship company of ot San Francisco