INCENDIARY WAR IN AMERICA
OUTBREAK OF FIRES NATION-WIDE PLOT New York, January 27. German sympathisers have apparently launched a fire offensive on an extensive scale. Damage has been done in many cities, aggregating a million sterling. Two Baltimore plants working on munitions have heen burned. Six persons were killed and many injured. An explosion occurred in a torpedo v/oiks at Washington. Two steamers in Atlantic ports are oil fire. President Wilson recently received rn anonymous warning that a nation-wide plot was in existence to destroy docks and war plants.—Renter. New York, January 27. Seven Army Department warehouses and several municipal docks have been destroyed at an Atlantic port by a fire, the origin of which is mysterious. The storehouses were empty. The shipbuilding plant was. saved.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Newport, January 27, The torpedo manufactory explosion killed eight people and injured seven.— Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 112, 29 January 1918, Page 5
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142INCENDIARY WAR IN AMERICA Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 112, 29 January 1918, Page 5
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