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Show WAR CARRIED INTO CANADA. Man Who Attempted to Destroy . Bridge Claims to be German Officer. , Vanceboro, Me. Another international interna-tional problem incident to the war twas thrust upon the United States on Tuesday by the action of Werner Van Horn, who, operating on the Canadian side of the border, dynamited the railway rail-way bridge over the St. Croix river and then escaped into this state. A few hours later in a room at a hotel here, Van Horn quietly submitted submit-ted to arrest,-, but immediately proclaimed pro-claimed himself .an officer of the German Ger-man army and set up the claim that he had committed an act of war and having fled to a neutral country, could not be legally surrendered to an enemy of the fatherland |