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Show New York, N. Y., July 7. In each enso it was said, tho bombs had been placed aboard a vessel carrying car-rying automobile and other supplies for the French army. U. S Secret Service Investigates. The United States secret service and the French government had join ed in an investigation it was said In at least one case tho bomb consisted con-sisted of two large Iron cylinders, one of which contained acid, and the other explosives which would bo sot off when hc acid should eat its way-through way-through the walls of the cylinder. The failure of the acid to penetrate the iron walls and reach the explosive during dur-ing thf voyage across, it was said, has frustrated the plots. Story Is Confirmed. Announcement that the bombs had been discovered wns made by a steamship man of high standing in this citv who confirmed the story told todav by II. C. HSU, a passenger of the steamer Espagne. Mr. Hill saul that one such bomb had been found aboard a vessel. The man confirming Mr. Hill's, statement said that the ship to which Mr. Hill referred was only one of three whose destruction at sea had been threatened at sea. Further de- tails wpre withheld- on the ground that IH to give them out might handicap the M work of investigating the plot M The third steamer, it Is learned, did H not go to Havre, but put into Fal- H mouth H Shins Under French Charter. H The Bankdale and Lord Erne, both H British freight ship3, were under char- IH ter to and were clearei by the French ; IH line. Officials, of the French line here H today declined to discuss the matter H further than to admit the two ships H had sailed under charter that they did H not carry passengers. H Two of the three vessels menaced H by bombs, it was learned, were tlv H British steamships Bankdale, which H sailed from New York May 7 for H Havre, and Lord Erne which sailed H April 29 for the same destination. H |