GERMAN BOMB PLOT IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2604, 28 October 1915, Page 5

GERMAN BOMB PLOT IN AMERICA

STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS NETTING THE SCHEMERS , By Telegraph—Press Association—Ooojriclit Now York, October 26. Further startling developments 'have occurred in connection with the bomb conspiracy. The police are seeking for Max Breitung, secretary and treasurer of the Oil AVell Supply Company, who is accused of furnishing the bulk of thirty thousand dollars (£6000) recently spent by Fay. The police are investigating Breitung's supposed relationship with Herr Breitung, the purchaser of the steamer Dacia, which sailed from ' New York with a cargo of arms and munitions intended for Germany, and was captured by a- JTrench. cruiser and taken to a French port. , Dr. Heinze aud Paul Baeche have aiso been arrest»d 'on a chaTgo of being concerned in the conspiracy. M. Flynn, head of the Federal Secret Service,'declares that Breitung and Fay paid Paul Seibe for the. purchase of explosives. SeJbc, who wan formerly a German soldier, - will be a Government witness. ■ . Scholz confessed that he and Fay tested explosives and made mines. They had almost perfected an exploding apparatus when they were arrested. He denies that any loaded mine had been attached to any ship. Scholz believes that Fay received four thousand dollars £800) from the German Government. It is officially stated that Fay has confessed t'hat the German Secret Service sent him to the United States after lie had exhibited his exploding invention. GERMAN PARCEL POST SUSPENDED. '(Rec. October 27, 9 p.m.) New/ York, October 26. The German parcel post throughout, the United States has been suspended, for what cause is unknown.