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Show POLICE RUSHED TO SAVE & FORT Rumors of German Reservists' Plot Cause Much Alarm in the East. NKW VoRK. March 13. Three hundred hun-dred and seventy policemen, armed with rifles, were hurried to Fort Hamilton, Ham-ilton, on the Brooklyn shore of the Narrows, tonight and established martial mar-tial law. It had been reported to the police department b the military authorities au-thorities that 500 German reservistB would attempt to destroy the fort at midnight. Three police launches, armed, were hurried to an anchorage off the water bide of the fortifications. By midnlpht, the hour set for the attack at-tack by the German reservists, according accord-ing to the military Informants of the police, Fnrt Hamilton was guarded from both the land and sea sides In such a manner as to make an attack utterly impossible. The object for the attempted destruction de-struction of the fort, the police depart ment was told, was to destroy the base from which all mine-laying operations in New York harbor would be conducted con-ducted in the event of war. Should it become necessary to mine the harbor and waters adjacent to New York Fort Hamilton would be the supply center for the sea explo sives. Knowing this, the reported plot of the German reservists was framed to render the United States powerless, at least temporarily, against mining metropolitan waters against submarine attacks if war comes. The first rumor that German resenr Ists had set midnight for a concerted attack against the fort reached Deputy Police Commissioner Godley in Brooklyn Brook-lyn from an army officer. It was on the application of the military author ities for aid that Mr. Wood's preparedness prepared-ness program was set in motion. Borough Inspector James A. Dillon and InP' C'nr .loseph Conboy were notified no-tified and all available police reserves were stripped from the precincts in Brooklyn. They were armed with rifles and hurried to the fort. After establishing a police guard a man every fifty feet along -the land and water front sides of the fortifications, fortifica-tions, Inspector Duton made the following fol-lowing statement : "A persistent rumor came to me from many sources that many German Ger-man reservists were congregating with a view to demolishing the fortifications fortifica-tions at Fort Hamilton The reserves sent from several precincts are acting as an additional guard co-operating with the soldiers." Fort Hamilton guards the entrance to New York bay, at the Narrows, and is directly across the channel from Fort Wadsworth on the Staten island shore oo- |