. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. pe 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
. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. pe 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 thesefires, 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 TW ^v,,rT ... ^ ^^^ ^sia l!jj **? V \Lm. ..^ L^.-- 1 ~^^^?iB9| i. \. - *=^h5 jL ^ L A ,^:* ^ l ?ii^^ H. 2 >. I J « t 289 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
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