GERMAN DEVILRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1917, Page 2

GERMAN DEVILRY.

MEAT" REALLY DYNAMITE. GERMAN PLOT TO DESTROY MUNITION STORES. A Stockholm correspondent gives dotiiils of' a,German plot which aimed at destroying large stoi'es of Russian war, materials which are supposed to be on the Skibotten-Ravanemi route, and also lit destroyinsr bridges, buildings and other constructions along the primitive road. "The leader on the spot," the correspondent says, "was the Swedish Baron Otto von Rosen, who appeared with an engineer and at least two other persons in Vittangi, in North Sweden. "The plan was to enter Finland, via the village of Kaesundo, which lies in Swedish territory. The Rosen expedition proclaimed its aims as exclusively scientific, but from the first it was watched by the police, and was stopped at the frontier river when about to cross. Its stock of four hundred pounds of 'preserved meal' was examined and found to be four hundred pounds of dynamite. One of its suspicious actions was the sending np of rockets close to the frontier. This action may bo taken in connection with the statement of the local journal, Nordskcnflamma, that the conspirators operated with a Finnish nobleman who already several times had been in trouble with the Russian Government. All the members of the expedition were heavilji armed, but made no resistance.. Shey explained that the rocket signals .wer| only to amuse the natives. Rosen an| his friends were in possession of'large sums of money. . '

"A telegram from Romsoc states'-tliaf 'a Swedish baron' lias been put tihdet arrest there, and it is assumed "-'that this is the expedition's leader."