The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . e British ships,he could make his way to their sterns, attach his machine tothem with its time device in action, and escape before theexplosions destroyed them. By the autumn of 1915 there had grown up such anepidemic of fires and mysterious explosions in Americanmunition-plants and on ships carrying American arms tothe Allies, that a growing insistence arose among the publicas to whether they were due to chance, to irresponsiblefanatics, or to the secr
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . e British ships,he could make his way to their sterns, attach his machine tothem with its time device in action, and escape before theexplosions destroyed them. By the autumn of 1915 there had grown up such anepidemic of fires and mysterious explosions in Americanmunition-plants and on ships carrying American arms tothe Allies, that a growing insistence arose among the publicas to whether they were due to chance, to irresponsiblefanatics, or to the secret promptings of a foreign Govern-ment. According to a list published in the New YorkJournal of Commerce, there had been about forty of thesetires, involving more than a score of deaths and propertylosses aggregating over $5,000,000. In one week papers re-ported a $55,000 fire in the Baldwin Locomotive works,where engines for the Russian Government were being built;the destruction of two buildings of the Midvale Steel andOrdnance Company, which was making 3,000,000 rifles forthe British Government; damage amounting to about $1,500,- 288. 28fl IN THE GERMAN COLONIES AND ON THE SEA 000 in the Bethlehem Steel Companys ordnance plant; a$1,000,000 fire in the Roebling steel-rope plant, which wasfilling orders for the Allies; and a fire in the ordnance plantof a company in Philadelphia. In the same period a fireoccurred at Stamford, Conn., in the plant of a companywhich was manufacturing aniline dyes—until recently a Ger-man monopoly. In the light of these events many editors were re-readingthe bomb-plot confession of Lieutenant Fay, then underindictment on a charge of conspiring against the UnitedStates, and were giving a less skeptical hearing than theywould otherwise have given to a still more startling state-ment of Dr. Joseph Goricar, who was for fifteen years inthe Austro-Hungarian consular service. They recalled whatDr. Constantin Dumba, the Austrian Ambassador at Wash-ingto
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