Arizona republican., 1917-12-14
OF SHIP WHICH RAN DOWN MUNITI0N BOAT
 DETAINED AS GERMAN SPY
Republican A. P. Leased Wirel

HALIFAX. \. s. Dec. 1S.-John Jo- hansen. helmsman on the Norwegian steamer Imo the Belgian relief ship whose collision with the ammunition steamer Mont Blanco, led to the dis aster of last Thursday was detained as a German spy suspect today. He was turned over to the military authorities by officials of the Massachusetts relief hospital where he has been under treatment.
 One of the nurses at the hospital young woman from New York whose name was not revealed. yesterday mo- ticed that her patient was acting queerly and that he did not seem to be wounded. Physicians examined the man and the decision was reached that he was shamming illness. Later it was said, JOhansen offered q nurse $5O if she would go out and buy him a news paper, the assumption being that he had in mind an attempt to escape in her absence.
 After that incident. a military guard was placed on duty by his bed The provost guard was sent for today and Johansen was locked up.
 In connection with the arrest, the widest spy rumors heard here since | These eliminated in a report that eight Germans had been shot at sun rise Military and naval authorities, while acknowledging that the Johansen case was being thoroughly investi- gated declared the shooting story was absurd
 Another persistent story was that a secret code in German had been found on Johansen, and that a wireless sta
 tion had been unearthed in the district
 destroyed by fire after the explosion. | ]. C. Burchall, counsel for the Imo in l the admiralty hearing on the collision 1 of the two vessels, said tonight that l the secret code story, as far as it con ! cerned Johansen. was absolutely with out foundation. Johansen Mir Burch-
 all said, had been living in the United States ten years and as he was anxious ! to return to his old home in Norway,
 he shipped on the Imo.
 Military authorities announced to-
 night that Louis Vosburg, also known
 as Henry French, arrested here today after the arrival of a relief steamer
 was not German spy in their opinion.
 Nosburg. who carried a railroad tick
 ct from Boston to Halifax, a map of
 Halifax and an assortment of unintel-
 ligible papers, boarded the steamer at
 Boston without being observed and
 failed to give q satisfactory account of
 himself after the ship was at sea. \ physician called to examine Nosburg expressed the opinion that he was tenn . porarily unbalanced. He will be held !. until the secret service men are satis
 fled he is harmless, and probably will
 be deported
 Testifying today al the government , ! ilg1Ii1.4- into tho rlnS.a of he eyn1pGinr . which wrecked Halifax last Thursday . Captain Lafnodec said the Mont Blanc
 was loaded at Gravesend Bay \. Y | with cargo of T. N. T., guncotton and
 dry picric acid and deck load of ben , Zol for the French government. He
 described the distribution of the eX- s plosives in the holds and said all nec- essary precautions were taken against an accident The partitions were of f wooden construction protected by tar
 cloth. The cargo was hermeticallN l sealed and nobody on board was al- D lowed to smoke.
 < Captain Lamodec testified his shiT ! had not carried munitions before H. r. said the ship came to- Halifax to re-
 ceive orders where to join her convoy D He received his orders from the British f pilot. Mackay, who came on board al Q Halifax the evening of December j
 Mackay was absolutely sober said
 the witness. No liquor was on the f Mont Blanc, as it had been forbidder l by the French government.
 , The morning of the collision Wa' clear, the captain continued. Whil,
 proceeding up to Bedford basin hi! ship sighted the Imo at S:30 a. m. H. was then about 120 feet from the Dart p mouth shore. The lmo was heading t' sea on the west side. but was taking , direction across his course so that hel n Continued on Page Four)