ANTI-MILITARIST PLOT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 56, 11 July 1913, Page 5

ANTI-MILITARIST PLOT.

TO BLOW UP BARRACKS

[Per Press Association.] Christchurch, July 10

A startling story of an attempt to dynamite King Edward Barracks last night was circulated to-day. The facts are as follows:—About 10.30 o’clock last night, L. Campbell was walking along Cashel street on his way home

with his wife, and when passing the Orderly Rooms near Montreal street, Campbell was astonished on noticing a light under one of the wooden buildings. He suspected that an attempt was being made to set fire to the building, and at once investigated matters. On looking under the building, which stands about eighteen inches clear of the level of the footpath on stone piles, he found a candle burning inside a biscuit tin. He was considerably startled when ho found that attached to the candle was a fairly long length of fuse, to the other end of which were secured three plugs of gelignite, enclosed in a length of bicycle tubing, which formed a rude cartridge. Campbell promptly disconnected the fuse and waited at the spot while his wife wont round to the police station in Hereford street. Sergt. Clarkson at once went to Cashel street, to the scene of the plot, and took charge of the gelignite, together with the fuse, candle, and biscuit tin.

The police are reticent. There have been further developments, but antimilitarist! era suspwted.