Show HIGH explosives FOUND LINER NER EVIDENT ATTEMPT TO DESTROY STEAMSHIP IS frustrated BY DISCOVERY OF BOMBS steamer loaded with 8 in fernal machines are placed so they will explode whenn hatch Is 13 closed new york an evident attempt the police believe belleve to blow up or destroy detroy y fire the steamship lapland larland bf of the cited star line now ilaw la in the star line fleet vas frustrated by discovery late tuesday afternoon of two bottlo shaped bomba bombs concealed couce aled in one of the ba hatches te hes the lapland waa was loaded with war munitions for the allies and is ache deed to sail wednesday morning for liverpool the member members of the anglo french commission hore here to negotiate a loan for the allies in this country were passengers on the hips ships last voyage the lapland has run the german submarine gauntlet several times else tho war began and oue otle cae occasion waa was reported sunk the two bomb bombs of glass five inches high ahard like a boye spinning top with the P ih 1 I p end rut cut off to td make a flat bottom about three inches in diameter A neck about two inches long where the hed of ther top wo ild be gave them thorn the bottle appe appearance instead 18 of being corked the end of the neck of each of them was fu aued aed together alter after they were filled with the explosive tva or incendiary ry liquid john enright at first said bald to be a foreman and later a detective employed by the steamship company found both bombs in III the second ha hatchway tchay of the lite steamer utter the who bad had be been en loading the ship and day with the war munitions ha had j quit dorit they were on either side of the hatch resting on an a narrow ledge whoever placed them there it was serester auge SE rested ested expected that the batches were to be in pla place in readiness for tailing allIng fi wednesday morning in such an event the hatches would have crushed the necha necks of the bomba bombs and liberated the acids causing either an explosion or a conflagration the hatches were oot not put on he however it being customary not to fasten down the hatches the vessel is at sea and then only in heavy weather tho the shape cf the bomb also to he the belief that wh chever ever pinned them may have bave exPect expected od that they would be upset by bir slight rolling of the ship it if they escaped detection and tie samo same purpose be accomplished shed enright reported hie his end to the police who took possession of the bombs and turned them over to inspector owen egan for analysis |