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Show '(BOMBS FOUND ; ON BOARD SHIP Investigation Is Under Way , Metal Cylinders Capped s With Wax Found in r Cargo. ; FAILURE OF PLOT i Attempts Made to Destroy Shipments of Military Auto-' Auto-' mobiles Boring Found t in Vital Parts. New York, July 7. Three ships sailing sail-ing from this port to Havre and reaching reach-ing there last May. It was learned 1 from an authoritative source today, were found to have unexplodcd bombs . aboard, the missiles having been placed plac-ed on the ships in. this city before ; sailing. New York, July 7. H. C. Hill, European representative of an American Ameri-can automobile company that ha; made largo shipments of military au tomobiles to the allies, arrived here today on the Espagne and said that a British ship loaded hero in May for Havre with a cargo of automobiles automo-biles and grain for the French army, was found to have two bombs on board when she reached her destination. destina-tion. Mr. Hill refused to give the name of the ship, saying that to do so might hamper an investigaaion now under way. One of the bombs consisting, he said, of two metal cylinders capped with wax, was discovered in one of the automobile cases and the other In a sack of grain. One cylinder was filled with acid, the other with a highly high-ly inflammable chemical. Failure of Plot. Tho bomb in the automobile case Mr Hill said, was evidently designed to be exploded by the motion of the ship causing the acid and the chemical chem-ical to mix. An unusually smooth passage probably resulted In the failure fail-ure of .the plot, he thought. One of the boards on the automobile case had been pried loose and the bomb inserted, possibly at a time the case was placed aboard the ship. "It also has been found," Mr. Hill said, "that attempts to destroy or make useless automobiles shipped to the allies are frequenL We are compelled com-pelled to keep at Havre a large force of mechanics to examine carefully each machine even before tested. On several occasions in the last few months emery dust has been found In the cylinders. This soon makes a car useless. In some instances borings have been made in vital parts of the machinery." |