SABOTAGE PLOT
HUGE ATLANTIC SHIPS QUEEN MARY-NORMANDIE NEW YORK DISCLOSURE DOUBLING OF GUARDS (Reed. Oct. 26, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 24. The reported discovery of a plot to sabotage the liners, Queen Mary and Normandie within a few days, caused all high ranking police officials hurriedly to board the vessels, double the guards and ban sightseers from the piers.
The Cunard-White Star Company, owners of the Queen Mary, said that information regarding the plot was in the Dossession of the United States Naval Intelligence Department. The police refused to amplify the bare announcement, insisting that the report was confidential and could not be made public. They said that a naval intelligence officer visited the ships earlier in the day.
The nuge liners are docked opposite each other at 50th Street, the Queen Mary in war-time grey and the Normandie in her i ormal black and white.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20078, 26 October 1939, Page 5
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147SABOTAGE PLOT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20078, 26 October 1939, Page 5
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