BOMB PLOTS IN CANADA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2813, 3 July 1916, Page 5

BOMB PLOTS IN CANADA

THE ATTEMPT ON THE TOLAND CANAL . SUSPECT TRIED AND ACQUITTED By Telegraph-Press AssociatioßiCopyrigi, New York, June 30. Captain Hans Tauscher, accused of complicity to destroy the Welland Canal, in Canada, has been acquitted. Madame Gadski,.the famous operatic singer, wife of the accused, sat beside, him in court' during his trial. - Captain Tausouor, it was alleged, planned with von der Goltz, alios Bridgwan Taylor, who was recently brought from Great Britain for trial here, to conduct a military invasion of Canada. Captain Tauscher was. formerly a German officer and agent for Ifrupps in the United States. The evidence strongly implicated him. [According to the London "Daily Telegraph," Captain Hans Tauscher, a German army officer, best known, as the husband of Madame Gadski, the operatic singer, was arrested in Neiw York, charged with conspiring, with five others, to blow up the Welland Canal. Tauscher who was general agent in the TTnited States for ICrupps, confessed that he wag sent to America by his Government just after the outbreak of war, and was told to place liimself Knder the orders of'tod Papen, the Military Attache to the German Embassy, who has since been expelled. The prisoner was charged specifically with organising financially an, expedition of five desperate men, providing them with a quantity- of dynamite, : and • instructing them to proceed to Canada, via Niagara Falls, and destroy the canal at a certain point where it crosses the river. Armed With revolvers, detonating caps, and portmanteaux filled witH at least 2001b. of dynamite, the five men actually tried to cross the Niagara River above the falls in a 'small boat, but someone lost his nerve at the last moment, and the expedition was abandoned.]