Show THE SALT LAKE EAKE TELEGRAM MONDAY MONDA Y EVENING Ys IS AM AMERICA ERICA HATCHING GIANT SPY PLOT TO BLOW EL 0 W UP ALLIES ALLIES' A LLIE S WAR W WA SUPPLIES R I Explosion in 25 Factories in the United States Recently May Reveal Fact I That Campaign of Intrigue e Is Being Waged A in in This Country by Kaisers Kaiser's Underground S Diplomats Diplomat Murder of German Minister MinisterS Reveals Its Breadth of Scope S S S 1 Is tile the United States being used as a gigantic chess board board for forth forthe th the movements of the spies pawns in a great wa war of intrigue being aged here by the European v no noat at each others other s. s throats Is I there ther a n nation wide plot to destroy arms and munitions factories factories fac fac- tories tones in m this country that are handling huge war orders for the allies S SS S Are rc the men dir directing this tills great web of intrigue the tile underground underground under under- ground diplomats of lh the Teutonic alliance Alarmed Federal officials have ordered a sweeping secret service f investigation S And Arid there Is ls ground for the growing grow ng feeling of terror for since the he war In Europe began there have hilve been twenty five explosions which have destroyed or wrecked powder and munitions plants In various parts of the country In all aU thirty seven lives JIves have ha been snuffed out In what Is an apparently wonderfully organized plot to destroy men and anti factories In this country that arc are contributing supplies to the allies in Europe cite Tho great plot probably months In the thc making seems to be put into full fuU ope operation now Here is one oue days lays activities of alleged foreign n spies spies sIgnificant significant episodes that occurred August 31 81 It was revealed In New Vork York that liner Minnehaha set et afire at sea seaby seaby seaby by a bomb July 8 8 had been loaded from lighter whose captain a aGerman aGerman aGerman German naval reservist is now under arrest on another charge Dynamite bomb exploded in front of home of M. M F. F Coombs Coomb in Depew N. N V. V whose plant now building will be used to manufacture aeroplanes for the allies Hercules powder plant at Pinole Cal partly wrecked by mysterious ous explosion In factory Two men killed In Houston Texas H. H W. W German American arrested as s bomb suspect escaped from deputies Ignatius T. T T. T Lincoln self confessed German spy was arraigned In court in Brooklyn N. N V. V on forgery charge Hearing of Gustav Kopsch German recently arrested by federal detectives charged with making drawings of fortifications In Virginia Secret service mens men's di discovery covery of huge war map in possession of Karl Jiencke of Germany student in dental school of University of Pennsylvania Is detained In Philadelphia S Train of dynamite was derailed and blown up killing three men near San Francisco Fifty hand bills c calling on German and Irish inch patriots to help end European war by dynamiting powder factories in this country were seized by postal authorities In St St. Louis Louic S Police Pollee of Council Bluffs Iowa report that Otto Warner a German arrested there on forgery charge declared he intended to rai raise e a fund of to aid the German Cause In addition audition to these acts of or violence U. U S. S secret service men have haye unearthed other evidence which indicates that the kaiser has a desperate campaign under way In America to tr try to block the shipping of or supplies to the allies Correspondence recently seized in the office of or one of Germanys Germany's agents In New York City reveals it is charged an inside organization involving ol prominent Germans in this country and German officials The startling charges were made as a result of the discovery discover of this correspondence that bribes had been offered In Washington to gain the sale of a huge hUJe supply of discarded U. U S S. S arm army rifles and that organized attempts had been made macic to buy bur up huge hUbe supplies of or war munitions already under contract for or the allies The murder of the Rev Edmund Kayser In Gary Indiana who Indiana who Is believed to have been a German spy spy has has revealed the existence of alleged plots to destroy powder plants In Indiana These suspicions have been strengthened by the discovery that the German minister of Gary had sent numerous telegrams to the German embassy In Wash Wash- Here is a list of the explosions in powder mills in this country in the past year alleged to be the work of the men involved in the great spy plot S AUG 29 1914 Du 1914 Du Pont storehouse plant at Jeffersontown Ky blown up at Pompton N. N J. J JJ one wrecked by explosion one dead dC dead three hurt Two buildings of Du DuPont DEC 23 23 MIxing Mixing house at government govern Pont plant at Carneys Carney Point ment arsenal N. N J J. J wrecked by explosion one dead set on fire three hurt JAN 18 1915 1915 plant of AUG 3 Explosion 3 In Frankford Frankford Frankford-ar- r. r John R. R Roebling Wire company senal Philadelphia kills three at Trenton used in making chains AUG 16 Explosion 16 Explosion in for French army destroyed by ning Pa pl plant of Aetna fire thought to be caused by ives company kills five bomb damage AUG 21 21 Explosion Explosion of shell while FEB 13 13 Explosion Explosion in Du Pont being tested at Bethlehem Steel Steelworks plant at Haskell N. N J. J three works South Bethlehem Pa POI hurt kills two MARCH 6 Two 6 Two explosions In Du Pu DuPont AUG 29 G 29 Glazing 29 Glazing mill of American AmericanS S Pont powder pl plant at Haskell Haskeil Powder company plant at Acton five killed Mass destroyed Two black powder pow pow- I APRIL 1 Explosion 1 in plant of der mills belonging to Du Pont Equitable Powder company Alton Al AI Powder company north of Wilton Wil Wll- I ton III ill five killed Del destroyed two APRIL APRIL 30 30 Mixing plant of Du Pont killed plant at Carneys Point N. N J J. J destroyed de AUG 29 29 Explosion Explosion at A Aetna Pow Row troyed by explosion six hurt der mills Aetna Ind md three men me meMA MA MAY V 12 Guncotton 12 Guncotton storehouse of Injured cause not explained Anderson Chemical plant at Wellington Well AUG 30 Powder 30 Powder train with oo ington N. N J. J wrecked three pounds of dynamite thrown off dead track at Pinole Cal quarter mile May 15 15 Stillhouse Stillhouse of Du Pont of railroad bed blown out train plant at Carneys Point destroyed destroyed three men killed by two explosions ANG 30 Packing 30 Packing house No 5 of JUNE 26 Du 26 Du Pont mill at Wayne Du Pont works at Pinole blown N. N J J. J demolished by explosion up two dead three missing JULY JUL V 6 Explosion 6 In cordite plant AUG 30 Dynamite 30 Dynamite bomb blown up of Canadian Explosives company before home of Maurice Coombs Coomb at Beloeil near Montreal killed Depew N. N V V. V YM agent of French four Injured ten government building a factory for I JULY 13 13 Mixing Mixing of United Unit manufacture of aeroplanes on a allies allies' al ed Safety Powder company's lies' lies contract I |