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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 munitions of war to the allies by placing clock-worked clock-worked bombs on the rudders or pro pellers of ships, so timed that the ships would be disabled on their way across the Atlantic, were disclosed Monday in the confession of one of five men charged in a complaint filed with a United States commissioner with conspiracy con-spiracy to violate a federal statute. Following upon the confession or Robert Fay, a lieutenant of the Sixteenth Six-teenth Saxony infantry, who admitted that he came to this country last April through an agreement with the German Ger-man secret service to blow up or delay steamers laden with war supplies for the allies, William J. Flynn, chief of the secret service, has filed 'before United States Commissioner Houghton a complaint, in which not only Fay, but four other men, are charged with promoting the conspiracy. The hearing hear-ing on the federal charge was setjtor November 4. |