THE BOMB-PLOTTERS IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2750, 19 April 1916, Page 5

THE BOMB-PLOTTERS IN AMERICA

VON papen indicted By Telegraph—Pros6 Association—Copyright Washington, April 17. A Federal Grand Jury has returned indictments against yon Papen, accusing him of participation in the plot to blow up the Wellan'd Canal. Captain Hans Tauch'er and others are also in-/ dieted for the same plot. rOaptain von Papen is the late German Military Attache at "'Washington. He was recalled by the Kaiser-on account of_ the official protests,."against.. his activities in .contravention?'df .the neutrality of the United States,, and is now said to be a leader of German espionage in Holland. A mass of evidence indicating his complioity in proGerman plots in the United States has been accumulated, inoluding- a -number of documents seized by 'tlie" British'Na vval authorities from his personal bag-ga-ge-during his passage from Amerioa ,to Germany under a safe-conduct, which guarded his person but not his property. The Welland Ship Canal is an important waterway joining Lakes Ontario and Erie, and is roughly parallel to the Niagara River, which, of course, is not navigable. The vulnerability of the canal to damage by explosions "is' easily seen in the faot that, owing to the large difference in level between the two lakes, there are twenty-sis locks in the canal.]