Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-02-22 | Page 1 | Explosives Are Found in Buoys

EXPLOSIVES ARE FOUNOJN BUOYS Man, Calling Himself an American, Arrested at Cartagena, Spain Under German Protection. A STRANGE MYSTERY Thirty Boxes of Dynamite, Gun Cotton and Gasoline Carefully Wrapped, Off Coast. Paris. Feb. 22, 9:30 a. m. Details of the arrest by the police of Cartagena. Carta-gena. Spain, of a man giving the name of Wood and calling himself an Amer-j lean, are contained In a telegram forwarded for-warded here by the correspondent at Madrid of Le Journal. After his arrest Wood received the protection of the German consul at Cartgena, who said the presence of the man at that seaport was inexplicable inexplica-ble excepting in connection with the discoery off the coast of a ship's boat ninrk-r-H TT.1Q The Cartgena police, the correspondent correspond-ent adds, supposing that Wood had disembarked dis-embarked from a submarine, searched the roads and found a number of buoys to which were attached thirty boxes covered with water proof cloth and containing dynamite, gun cotton and gasoline. The German submarine U-19 figured in the Sinn Fein rebellion in Ireland last Eastern. It was the vessel which carried Sir Roger Casement, the sup-; posed head and prime Instigator oft the revolt to Tralee where he landed on Good Friday with Daniel J. Ball-! ey, a British private and a third man named Montieth. on