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Show ROBERT FAY IS I PLACED ON TRIAL I German Government Impli- , H cated in Plot to Destroy j M Ships Carrying War H Munitions ! M New York, April 25. Rohert Fay, a j German lieutenant accused of con l H spiracy to destroy ships carrying mu- j H nitlonB of war, was placed on trial be- H fore United States Judge Howe today, . J H together with his brother-in-law, Walt- o 'H er Scholz, and Paul "Daeche, Indicted 1 with him last "November. One of the H H stories Fay was credited with telling j H I after his arrest in October was that H German secret service officers en- j H gincercd the alleged plot in Germany. , H The government expects to call , H about 45 witnesses and to introduce H as exhibits a number of bombs and 'H a model of a mechanism for explod- v ing the bombs in ships alleged to have ) i H been designed by the defendants. ' H Engelbcrt Bronkorat, Dr. Kienzle H and Max Breltung, also indicted in the j H case, will be tried. i H |