THE OCEAN BOMB ASSASSINS.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2621, 17 November 1915, Page 5

THE OCEAN BOMB ASSASSINS.

SUSPECT CONFESSES DESIGNS.ON MUNITION SHIPS Br Meeraph—Press ABSoolation—Copyright New York, November 15. • Robert Fay has confessed the details of the dynamite plots for the placing , of bombs in munition ships. His confession implicates other Germans, but tho details ns yet are secret. [Robert Fay and his brother-in-law, • Walter Scliolz, were arrested in Now York in connection with plots against tho American export of munitions. Fay, who was a lieutenant in the German Army, arrived from Germany to experiment with a machine intended to dp' fastened to ships' rudders to blow up their steering gear and compel them to return to port. The police who arrested Scliolz and Fay found in_ tlioir possession dynamite caps and trinitrotoluol. Tho men had equipped a- motorboat, containing detailed maps, showing tho position of the docks. Fay rented a warehouse at Hoboken, where the police found five mines fitted with appliances for attachment to ships. The clockwork of the bomb was operated by the water. The men were arrested when they were testing a bomb, and Fay offered tho police a bribe of £200 to release him. Fay confessed that, knowing that damage done to war factories could be_ easily repaired, he had conceived the idea of attacking munition shijjs,'and'therefore had left Germany with his invention in order to wreck the Allies' ships sailing out of New York. Ho admitted that he had been working in conjunction with the German Seoret Service, which lie admitted had been very active in the United States, in encouraging attempts on factories and ships.!