SPY PLOT IN CANADA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 163, 7 April 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

SPY PLOT IN CANADA.

DP,ASIATIC EXPOSI'I!K. The New York corespondent of the Central News states that an interesting and even dramatic- war story is going tlio rounds at the Engineers' Club, 'n New York, concerning the recent execution of two German consp:rators in Canada, as the sequel to a conversation overheard in th« restaurant of the Fhtiron Building in New York. The story, the aeeruacy of which is vouched for by a prominent member -if the club, relates how some time ago two Germans seated in the Flatiron restaurant were earnestly discussing va>s and means for destroying the WcMaml Canal, in Canada. Seated at th.' 1 next table was a New York engineer, who had- just returned from Canada, wi.ere he had been at work on the Wclland Canal. Hearing the Germans mention the (anal, ha pricked up bis ears, and, although his knowledge of German was limited, he was rjble to grasp the main outlines of the plot. Immediately afterwards he called up the superintendent of the canal on the tel. phone, and told him all he had heard. Within a week the engineer received a telegram askiii" him to go to Canada at once, and was taken to a prison, wliere lie jrjantif;cd the two very men whose conversation he bad overheard in the restaurant. They had been captured to the canal with dynamite in their possession. Their execution as German soirs followed soon afterwards.