The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-01-20
ANARCHIST PLOT
TO DYNAMITE
OUR FLEET
Rio Police Unearth Scheme to
Wreck Evans Ships
C0NsPIRATORS FLEE CITY
Brazilian Police, Although on Track
Of Fusltlves, Decline TO Reveal
Plans Of Reds"

RIO JANEIRO, Jan. 20.-The Bra
lillian police have discovered an an
archistic plot here having as its OBJ
ject the destruction of part Of the
American feet now lying in the har
Dor. The conspiracy, while centerine
in Rio Janeiro and Petropolis, has ram
ifications In Sac PaulO and Minas &C.
raes.
An individual named Jean Fedher,
who resided in Petr0polis, was the
chief conspiratOr here, although 1t Is
understood that foreign anarchists are
deeply involved in the plot. Fedher is
believed to have fed to Sac PaulO.
and the police who knew him have
been sent to that place for the purpose
of experimenting him.
Dispatches sent to the United States
last week stated that grave catastrO.
phe had been threatened the American
feet through plot to blow up with
a torpedo Admiral Evans flagship, the
Connecticut.
The sixteen American battleships
have been joined in the harbor of
Rio JaneirO by the torpedo flotilla,
numbering six vessels, and all ride
safely at anchor here.
One of the detectives who was well
acquainted with Fedher, having serv-
ed on the police force at Petropolis
for some time, has returned from that
place after having made Investigations
there and had a long conference with
the chief of police ut Rio Janeiro.
The latter gave 1t to be understood
later that the Sac PaulO police are on
the track of the archconspirator and
expect to arrest him soon.
The chief of police at Rio Janeiro
has issued an official statement, which
says:
"Some time before the arrival Of the
American feet at Rio Janeiro the Bra
lillian government received from
Washington and Paris advices that
anarchists of different nationalities in
tended to damage one or several of the
ships Of the American feet.
"The names and addresses Of the con-
spirators were indicated by infOrma-
ton which the police here had receiv-
ed previously from France and Ger
many. The police of this district are
working with the police Of Sac Paulo
and Minas Geraes, and am sure every
precautiOn will be exercised and the
most rigorous vigilance observed both
on land and at sea to prevent any In
jury being done"
The chief of police, after having
made this official statement, said that
he did not feel he should go into any
further details with regard to the con
spiracy. but he authorized the state
ment that the plot was organized by
Fedher, and he added that the people
of the United States could rest easy
as all of the conspirators had taken
refuge in the interior.
As yet the people Of Brazil are ig
nOrant of the details of the plot to dc
injury to the visitors, although there
has been some slight inkling of the
matter. The impression which the ex
posture Of this plot will create here vii
be q profound one, because 1t is the
first anarchistic conspiracy that ha.
oven been known in Brazil.
The police of Sac PaulO have SEN
word that they are on the track of tn,
malefactors, who. they declare, will
not he able to come to Rio JaneirO.
A Santiago Chile dispatch says tina
the cruiser Chacabuco will leave Their,
on Wednesday to meet the American
feet at Punta Arenas. on the strait o.
Magellan. The cruiser will first stOl
at Talacahuano to make preparation
for the reception of the torpedo boa
notilla.
Tomorrow the feet will leave Ri,
JaneirO and enter upon what maya
men consider the most interesting
stage of Its long vOyage-the on
which will take 1t eventually through
the strait Of Magellan. Its next stol
will be Punta Arenas, within the strait
where the armada will rest for fiv
days before it finishes the passag
through this forbidding body of wa
ter and heads northward for CallaC
In the voyage through the stral
Of Magellan Lieutenant Commando
Cones torpedo boat fotilla will TO
the first time sail with the big ships
This will necessitate altering the orig
inal programme of the destroyer fic
tilla, and, according to the presen
plans, its visit to Buenos Ayres an
MOntevideo will be cut out.