GERMAN CONSPIRACY
TO BLOW UP BERLIN VICTORY COLUMN.
(Rec. March 16, 1.35 a-m.)
Berlin, March 14
An attempt was made to blow up the Victory column. Six German accomplices in the conspiracy have teen arrested. It is teilevod that part of the conspiracy was to assassinate prominent Germans. Sixty thousand marks have teen offered for the discovery of the ;>erpetrators.—"The Times."
[The column of Victory, which is in the centre of Konigs-Platz. Berlin, was inaugurated in 1873. On the square pedestal there are reliefs in bronze; on the east side is the Danish war of 1864, by A. Calandrelli: on the north the battle of Koniggratz. 1866, by M. Schulz; on the west the battle of 'Sedan. 1870, and the entry into Paris, 1871, by K. Keil; and on the south the return of the troops to Berlin, 1871, by A. Wolff. The base of the column is embellished with Venetian mosaics, illustrating the war of 1870 and the restoration of the German Empire.)
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 146, 16 March 1921, Page 5
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164GERMAN CONSPIRACY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 146, 16 March 1921, Page 5
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