Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-09-27 | Page 1 | German Plotters Arrested

1 - f PIans To Wreck Machinery In Munitions Plants Are Defeated J 'I Orae Hundred Germans; and German Sympathizers Sym-pathizers to Be Interned PLOT IS discovered! Mechanics Were Employed Em-ployed in Mtmition Plants and on Navy . : . . Contracts. NEW YORK, Spt. 27. Plans to week machinery In munitions factories factor-ies at the bidding of European agents in Europe, are believed by the police to have been defeated through the arrests ar-rests of aUbut 100 Germans and Ger man sympathsizers in raids which bes gun last night Irere, were continued today. to-day. This forenoon the aliens, each guarded by a detective, were placed in automobile vans at police headquarters and left for Elite island where, It was announced, they will be interned probably prob-ably for the duration of the war. Nearly all the men arrested are mechanics. me-chanics. A number are employed inj munition plants and on nav,y contracts. In the possession of some were found quantities of carborundum in pulverized pulver-ized form a chemical used to destroy delicate machinery. nn