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Show WIRELESS STATION UMWEILUK Secret Service Investigating Use Made of Fabbrl Plant In Now York, Nov. 23 United States secret service agents today enJeav-j enJeav-j ored to learn If tho neutrality of tho United States In the European wnr had been violated by tho sending of wireless messages from a station under un-der surveillance In liar Harbor, Me., to Germany or Gorman war vessels in tho Atlantic. The station under survolllanee s haid to be the private plant of Eriiitst G and Alessandro Fabbrl, brothers prominent hi New YorV society. The Fabbrls are sons of the late Ernes i to Fabbrl, who was partner of J. P. I Morgan, nnd Mrs. Ernesto U Fab-bil Fab-bil Is a granddaughter of the IatoWil-! IatoWil-! Ham H. Vanderbllt. Although the Fabbrls aro of Italian origin. Alessandro Ales-sandro Fabbrl Is said to be pronounc odly pro-Germnn In his sympathies. At his homo hero Ernesto G. Fnb-b.'l Fnb-b.'l denied that ho or his brother had ever conveyed any Information to German olllclnls and treated the whole story as a Joko. lie said his hi other maintained a wireless plant simply for amusement. t, Alleged close friendship of tho Fan-Airl Fan-Airl brothers and Captain Polack of tho Kronprlnzessln Cecllle was ono of the chief reasons why the government govern-ment agents placed a close watch on on tho Fabbrl wireless. |