THE LUSITANIA.
WAS TO BE BOMBED. SEEKING MORE INFORMATION.
f AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION
(Received this day at 1.20 a.m.,) : NEW YORK. Oct 12 Ilsen, a German lawyer, informed the police that he has learned that bomba were placed aboard the Lusitania and timed to explode near tho Irish Coast, but the vessel was torpedoed before tfhe bombs exploded. 11sen says he was in the office of Schimmol a German lawyer, now in Germany, « when the Lusitania was torpedoed, shouted “Fool you have ruined my work. Bombs would have destroyed her.” ORciala axe trying to establish whether Count Bernatorff knew of the bombs when he published the warning to passengers not to travel in the Lusitania.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1917, Page 3
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116THE LUSITANIA. Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1917, Page 3
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