PLOT TO DESTROY SHIP.
TIME BOMB ON HULL. INCIDENT AT SEATTLE. Received January 22, 8.5 a.m. SEATTLE, Jan. 20. The disclosure of a plot to bomb the Japanese 'iner, Hiye Maru, caused the vessel to be moved hastily from its moorings at the Great Northern dock here.
The nude body of a man, a Canadian, was found supported by a lifepreserver in the water near the ship, and his companion, who was arrested on the pier, revealed that he and the dead man planned to blow up the vessel with a time bomb attached to the hull, The prisoner gave his name as George Partridge, of Vancouver, British Columbia. He said the bomb failed to explode. The dead man was. Ralph Forsythe, a graduate and ex-instructor of the University of British Columbia. Meanwhile Partridge’s brother was arrested in Vancouver. He said: “My brother and Forsythe had an agreement with the Chinese to sink vessels carrying iron and other materials to Japan. If the first attempt was successful a financial arrangement would be completed.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 22 January 1938, Page 9
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