Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1917 — 50 ENEMY ALIENS INTERNED [ARTICLE]

50 ENEMY ALIENS INTERNED

Workers Seized by U. S. at Hoboken— Planned to Destroy Property. Hoboken, N. Y., Oct. 19. —Fifty mechanics working at a large dry dock plant here on American transports,and German liners seized by the government, were interned at Ellis island as “alien enemies.” The company for which the men worked refused to confirm the arrests, but the information yvas given out by the Hoboken police. Evidence was said to have been discovered of a new conspiracy t» destroy vast quantities of munitions and property. ■ *