A THRILLING STORY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 July 1913, Page 4

A THRILLING STORY.

ATTEMPT TO DYNAMITE MILITARY BARRACKS. ANTI-MILITARISTS SUSPECTED, (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. A startling story is in circulation of an attempt to dynamite tli© King Edward barracks last night. The story indicated that some malevolent person or persons had planned to destroy a portion at least of the buildings attached to the barracks in Cashel-street. The attempt appeared, on investigation, to have been tlie work of amateurs, but had it succeeded it is difficult to say what damage might have been wrought, not only to that/ portion of the drill-shed selected, but to the roadway 1 and houses in tlie immediate .vicinity. . ~ • The facts; are as_ follows: About 10.30 o'clock last night L. Campbpll was walking' along Cashel-street on his way home with his wife. When passing the orderly rooms near Mon-treal-street, Campbell was somewhat 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, ana at once investigated matters. Ori looking under the building, which' stands about eighteen inches clear of the level of the footpath, on etono piles, he found a candle burning inside a biscuit tin. He was considerably startled when he found that attached to the candle was a fairly long length of fuse, to the other end of winch were secured three plugs of golignite enclosed in a length of bicycle tubing, which formed a rude cartridge. Campbell promptly disconnected the fuse, and waited at tho spot while his wife went round to the police station in Hereford-street. Sergeant Clarkson at once went into Cashel-street to the scene of tho plot, and took charge of the gelignite, together with the, fuse, candle, and biscuit tin. . ' The police are reticent^ There have been no ftirther developments, but anti-militarists are suspected.