Show PLOT TO BLOW UP SHIPS former german officer admits plan to cripple american vessels new york details of a plot to hamper the shipment of 0 munitions of war to the tha allies by placing clock worked bombs on the rudders or propellers of ships so timed that the ships would be disabled on oil their way across tho the atlantic were disclosed monday ilithe in the confession of one of five men charged in a complaint tiled filed with a united states commissioner with conspiracy to violate a federal statute following upon the confession of robert pay a lieutenant ot of the sixteenth saxony infantry who admitted that lie he canie came to this country last april through an agreement with the german secret service to blow up or delay steamers laden with war supplies for the allies william J flynn chief of the secret service bis ha blied flied before united states commissioner houghton a complaint in which not only faai fay but four other men are charged with promoting the conspiracy the hearing on the federal charge was ws set for november 4 |